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Monthly Archives: October 2022
Our waterways…BUGGER! How water bugs are used to illustrate the health of our waterways
By Bex Hadfield (u7522737), Word Count: 500 A day of work experience sampling and recording water bugs to measure the water quality of freshwater rivers in the ACT and upper Murrumbidgee catchment area. This is part of long-term citizen-science research … Continue reading
Making an impact on climate change as an individual
by Matilda Needle (u6664597) With all this talk of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions it can be overwhelming to think anything we do on an individual level will make a difference. I try to limit waste and compost, but … Continue reading
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Honey I’ve Lost My Legs – Striped Legless Lizard Monitoring in the ACT
Here is the (adorable) Striped Legless Lizard (Delma impar), which roams in small populations across remnant grasslands in the ACT, Australia. Current State Currently, the Striped Legless Lizard is listed as Threatened in the ACT and nationally and as Endangered … Continue reading
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Sharing is Caring: Biodiversity in Urban Areas
u6361657 How does urbanisation affect biodiversity? Urbanisation is a continuously growing modern phenomenon that shapes the world we live in today. Currently, according to World Bank, 86% of Australia’s population live in urban areas, and 57% of the global population … Continue reading
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Biennial Badies
Olivia Stansfield – U6939957 The gift that just keeps giving The 2021 State of the Environment Report found that invasive species in Australia affected 82% of threatened taxa making it the most significant threatening process. In Australia, invasive species are … Continue reading
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People and Platypus: How citizen science can support biodiversity monitoring
By Hamish Stewart u6676910 Earlier this year I participated in the annual volunteer Waterwatch Platypus Month Survey. This post will explore the importance of biodiversity monitoring and how citizen science programmes can support conservation efforts. Biodiversity monitoring: what is it … Continue reading
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Life is a highway: the importance of habitat corridors for threatened communities
Grace Findlay – u7114453 Why did the chicken cross the road? I’m sure you know the answer, but perhaps we should also ask a more complex question: how could the chicken even cross the road if its habitat was fragmented? … Continue reading
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Tidbinbilla volunteering for koala monitoring program
Jonathan u6961698 The koalas we see in the zoos are more different than the ones in the wild. I used to think that koalas like to be in groups and live together but after this experience it was told to … Continue reading
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High koala-ty monitoring program informs management of endangered species at Tidbinbilla
By u6951572 Did you know koalas are eucalypt connoisseurs? Did you know koala scat smells like eucalyptus essential oil? Did you know koalas were previously extinct in the ACT? I didn’t… Until I joined a group of Tidbinbilla staff, Parkcare … Continue reading
Weed better do something: Invasive plant control to improve biodiversity in the Pinnacle Nature Reserve.
Jessica Kriticos (u7126966) Running along the part of the upper western edge of Canberra, The Pinnacle Nature Reserve is a grassy woodland beloved by the residents of the neighbouring Belconnen suburbs. But this ecosystem hasn’t always been an idyllic spot … Continue reading
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