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Monthly Archives: November 2022
Ginninderry Project
by Allen Xu u6470049 Photo of Ginninderry Community Introduction Ginninderry is a new developing suburb at the west of ACT and close to the boundaries of NSW. According to the Ginninderry report (Ginninderra Catchment Group, 2016), the project aims to … Continue reading
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EEEK! SSSNAKE! – Tracking the movement of urban-adapted Eastern Brown Snakes:
What’s your first reaction to seeing a snake in the wild? Hold on! let me rephrase how you feel about snakes in your backyard!? In the ACT, various suburbs are surrounded by bushland nature reserves, the perfect habitat for Australia’s … Continue reading
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A Surprising Bounce Back – These Frogs Won’t Stay Down
u6718252, Matthew Qiu It is fairly well known that that many of Australia’s frog species have been rapidly declining over recent decades. There have been multiple causes of this – climate change, habitat destruction and disease just to name a … Continue reading
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Threats from within: failings of the Biodiversity Offset Scheme
-u5803907 An Example: Delma impar habitat in a Yass development Alongside an ecology surveying company, I assessed a potential development site in Yass (NSW) for the presence of Delma impar (the striped legless lizard). Delma impar is a threatened species … Continue reading
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The Bush Stone-Curlew – Reintroduction conservation at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary.
U7121128 MJ Spencer-Stewart The simplistic view that a niche remains vacant and with fixed borders following a species’ extinction is hopelessly naive. Nature abhors a vacuum, and any returning species has to fight to develop its own new niche. How … Continue reading
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In rain or shine, green spaces are important for biodiversity in cities
Fran Hebblewhite, U7116369, words: 550 On a rainy October day, a group of ANU students went to Gininderry, Canberra with the intention of planting native plants in an urban park, only to get extremely wet. While we didn’t get to … Continue reading
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Cute, Cuddly and Chlamydia-Ridden: Koala Conservation in the ACT
u7298108 Any Australian is more than aware of the plight of our Koalas- with threats coming from all sides, they are facing an imminent risk of extinction. Across the country, this risk grows with every passing day, with the federal … Continue reading
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Improving the State of the Protected Area Estate
For many people, the words ‘biodiversity conservation’ engender images of national parks, reserves, and other protected areas. Collectively, these areas form the ‘National Reserve System’, Australia’s protected area estate. Despite its expansion in recent years, the protected area estate has … Continue reading