-
Recent Posts
- Ginninderry Project
- EEEK! SSSNAKE! – Tracking the movement of urban-adapted Eastern Brown Snakes:
- A Surprising Bounce Back – These Frogs Won’t Stay Down
- Threats from within: failings of the Biodiversity Offset Scheme
- The Bush Stone-Curlew – Reintroduction conservation at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary.
Archives
- November 2022
- October 2022
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- October 2019
- September 2019
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- July 2016
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
Categories
- Australian birds
- biodiversity conservation
- Birds
- Bushfire
- Climate change
- environmental offsets
- Freshwater biodiversity
- Friends of Mount Majura
- Introduction to ecology
- invasive species
- Landcare
- Migration
- national seed bank
- Paddock Trees
- Reintroduction
- remote sensing
- Reptile
- Restoration ecology
- revegetation
- Scottsdale Reserve
- Uncategorized
- Urbanisation
- Volunteer work
- weeds
Meta
Author Archives: Biodiversity Conservation Blog
Where’s Delma? Finding it hard to spot the stripes – Vulnerable Striped Legless Lizard (Delma impar) surveying across varied habitat conditions: Bonshaw and Jerrabomberra Grasslands
For my work experience, I headed out to Bonshaw and Jerrabomberra East Grasslands in Canberra to continue undertaking long-term reptile surveys guided by ACT Parks & Conservation. These surveys aim to investigate the population dynamics of nationally vulnerable listed species[1] [2], … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Biodiversity Offsets with ACT Parks and Conservation Services (PCS)
By U6062766 My work experience was held at the ACT Parks and Conservation Services (PCS) Athllon Depot. It involved reviewing, synthesising and condensing information from the Offset Management Plans of Isaacs Ridge Nature Reserve Extension and Kenny Nature Reserve into … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
AGROBIODIVERSITY IN TUVALU – THREATS AND SOLUTIONS
by Tiale Panapa, u6718302 An interview with Mr. Soseala Tinilau –Director of Environment in Tuvalu’s Ministry of Public Works, Infrastructures, Environment, Labour, Metrology and Disaster (MPWIELMD). Biodiversity conservation is often discussed when it comes to endangered and extinct species and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Monitoring Canberra’s Catchments
By Catherine Gray (u6679765) Stretching over 84,000 square kilometres, across the southern regions of NSW and the ACT, lies the Murrumbidgee catchment. An incredibly diverse landscape containing nationally significant ecosystems and unique biodiversity. “A catchment is an area where water … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
People, politics, and primeval forest: Finding a way forward for the most controversial conservation site in Europe
Monika Iskander, u6587481 Bialowieza Forest is a UNESCO World Heritage site straddling the border of Poland and Belarus, thought to be the last remnant of an ancient woodland that once spanned continental Europe. In recent years, it has become the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Reintroducing the Eastern Quoll in Mulligans Flat: Quoll-ity Biodiversity Conservation
Samuel Phillis u5820978 An Interview with Belinda Wilson – Conservation Ecologist, and PhD Candidate at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University on the reintroduction biology of the eastern quoll. Australia holds many records, but … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, eastern quolls, Mulligans flat
Leave a comment
Scoop a Poop-understand antibiotic resistance from possum poop
U6535090-Tsz Fung Law What is Scoop a Poop? Scoop a Poop is a citizen science project to locate antibiotic resistance genes in the environment by studying brushtail and ringtail possum poop. This project is designed by scientists from Macquarie University … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Grassland Conservation in the A.C.T; What is being done?
James Benjamin Smith – u6680704 The Canberra’s Friends of Grasslands (FOG) community is dedicated to conserving the native vegetation of local grasslands. On the 14th of August, Geoff Robertson (President of FOG) and I visited Franklin Grasslands. Despite much of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Scoop a poop
U6396547 In the term break of the second semester 2020, I joined a volunteer science program called ‘scoop a poop’ involving the collaboration of researchers from Macquarie University and the University of Sydney. The program was one component of a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
The Woodlands and Wetlands Trust: Managers of Two Very Different Ecosystems
By Jonah Lafferty, u6381824 Last week I had the privilege of talking to Millie Sutherland Saines from the Woodlands and Wetlands trust about her work in Ecology and Outreach. You can listen to the full interview below or read a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Biodiversity Conservation 