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Monthly Archives: May 2015
—-Nursery maintenance at Greening Australia—-
-Joe Foskett, u5012240 Greening Australia is an NGO, a non-profit organisation that is not a part of any government body—although in this case, it very often works with the Australian government. It has many projects, all centred on the goal … Continue reading
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Feral Animal Control in the ACT and Surrounding NSW Region
My work experience involved two days of fieldwork with the NSW Parks and Wildlife Services Pests and Weeds Team learning about a variety of pest control management options currently being explored or used in the Tinderry Nature Reserve and throughout … Continue reading
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The Impacts of civil war on the African forest Elephants in Liberia
The impacts of the civil war on the African Forest Elephants in Liberia- U5503457 In December, 2009, there was an outbreak of civil war which commenced from a little border town-Liberia Ivory Coast and escalated throughout the entire country. This … Continue reading
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Greening Australia: working towards ‘Conservation without Borders’
My experience Over the past two months, I’ve had the opportunity to work with Greening Australia. Our outings to Scottsdale were cancelled as a result of the weather, I ended up joining their weekly volunteer program which runs Wednesdays and Thursdays. Wednesdays: In the … Continue reading
Mist netting
Mist netting is a nice methodology for assessing flying wildlife, especially birds and bats. The outcomes of the mist netting can be used in a wide variety of activities, including migratory surveys, population census, health/viability of given populations, conservation studies … Continue reading
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Can Mining and Biodiversity Conservation Co-exist?
u5707726 Mining is an important economic activity in many developing nations in Africa. For some countries it is the backbone of the economy. In Zambia for example, copper mining accounts for 80% of foreign exchange earnings. Mining has caused … Continue reading
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An unique ex situ conservation of timor deer in West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
“Ex situ conservation is the technique of conservation of all levels of biological diversity outside their natural habitats through different techniques like zoo, captive breeding, aquarium, botanical garden, and gene bank” Kasso and Balakrishnan, 2013 Introduction In Indonesia, the timor deer or … Continue reading
Conservation efforts in Booderee National Park
Booderee National Park (BNP) is located on the southern peninsula of Jervis Bay, on the south coast of New South Wales. This reserve, declared under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, has as main goal to protect the … Continue reading
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The Last Wild Putuo Hornbeam on Earth: I’m NO LONGER Alone
Who am I? Putuo hornbeam (Carpinus putoensis) is exclusively endemic to Zhoushan archipelago, Zhejiang Province in southeast China. Surviving as a single tree outside Huiji Temple, the 200-year-old reclusive refugee was discovered in the 1930s and confirmed to be the … Continue reading
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Isolation and speciation
Roberta Batista Viana – u5492640 During the first semester of 2014 I worked at the Plant Anatomy Laboratory of the Botanic Department of University of Brasília preparing slides for later analysis of Peperomia glabella individuals from the continent and an … Continue reading
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Biodiversity Conservation 