Author Archives: Biodiversity Conservation Blog

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 →

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 →

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 →

-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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

George Levantis – U5825436 What contains 10% of the world’s fish species, 25% of all known marine species, and 85% of the world’s species of marine turtle? No, it isn’t Lake Burley Griffin. The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is over … Continue reading →

Before I volunteered with the  Mt.Ainslie Weeders, weeding to me was to get rid of the unwanted plants, done and dusted. Well turns out, weeding is much more complex than you think and I am going to share with you my … Continue reading →