Monthly Archives: October 2017

Biodiversity conservation issues involved in reputed trademarks in China

What is Trademark ? Trademark value is the value of the use of a trademark at a particular time and economic value, with the use of trademarks and commodities in the process of achieving the value. Trademark is not only an … Continue reading

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Working together as volunteers in Mount Majura Nature Reserve

Introduction Living in Ainslie district for over two years, I have been used to the scenes of Mount Ainslie and Mount Majura Nature Reserves every weekday back to home. Sometimes, I feel grateful to live in such a nice suburb … Continue reading

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Inspiring management in protecting Chinese yew (Taxus chinensis)

Inspiring management in protecting Chinese yew (Taxus chinensis)   Species Introduction Chinese yew (Taxus chinensis), as one of Category 1 protected species in China, has been listed in IUCN Red List as endangered species. It scattered distributes in southeastern China. … Continue reading

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Water hyacinth: a killer of aquatic biodiversity

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), a species that originated in South America, has been widely distributed in the world. It is a free-floating aquatic macrophyte that typically grows about 0.5m height and up to 1m in tropical areas. Recently, it is … Continue reading

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Trees growing on ‘minefields’ – Andres Gordon

Trees growing on ‘minefields’ Throughout the last 800 years of human history, conflicts between different groups have opened paths for the use of imaginative and controversial tools to stop, injure and most of the times destroy one another (Truver, 2012). … Continue reading

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The value of Tibetan mastiff, from luxury to nothing

More and more stray dogs on the Tibetan plateau are related to the rise and fall of the Tibetan mastiff market. Previously, the domestication cost of the Tibetan mastiff was quite high. During a long term, the Tibetan mastiff was … Continue reading

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Bird Surveys in the ACT

Introduction: Audaciously early in the morning on the 4th and 5th of October, me and a team of students, joined Dr Phillip Gibbons to help out with the annual bird surveys. The bird survey’s, are part of an ongoing 6-year … Continue reading

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Bird Surveying in Canberra Region

  By Arhum Mustafa As Canberra goes through some rapid urban development, new suburbs are springing up and with this requirements of how these areas should look. Old trees are not aesthetically pleasing; hence they are removed but despite their … Continue reading

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Monitoring the impact of culling – Noisy Miners in the Southwest slope region of NSW

Sitting in front of the computer and browsing through thousands of photos. This may seem very simple, but it is not a glamorous work. Instead, it is very time consuming and requires a lot of patience because when you look … Continue reading

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Box Gum Grassy Woodland: Doing Something Worthwhile. (By Crystallene Fernando)

  A Sunday afternoon offers a host of possibilities: a stroll down the lane, a 12-hour slumber, or maybe it’s just hours of vegging out in front of a television. But there are some possibilities that, I think, are more … Continue reading

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