Author Archives: Biodiversity Conservation Blog

Booderee National Park (BNP) is located on the southern peninsula of Jervis Bay, on the south coast of New South Wales. This reserve, declared under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, has as main goal to protect the … Continue reading →

Who am I? Putuo hornbeam (Carpinus putoensis) is exclusively endemic to Zhoushan archipelago,  Zhejiang Province in southeast China. Surviving as a single tree outside Huiji Temple, the 200-year-old reclusive refugee was discovered in the 1930s and confirmed to be the … Continue reading →

Roberta Batista Viana – u5492640 During the first semester of 2014 I worked at the Plant Anatomy Laboratory of the Botanic Department of University of Brasília preparing slides for later analysis of Peperomia glabella individuals from the continent and an … Continue reading →

Beatriz de Brito Leite (u5645799) Little Background and Important things to consider In this work experience I had the chance to do a very unique task and learn a lot about threatened species and what has been done to protected … Continue reading →

Spoiler alert: we didn’t catch any u5204437 Sarah Buchan In April I accompanied a group of researchers from ANU led by Dave Rowell on a preliminary field trip during April to locate and catch funnel webs from Atrax robusta, Hadronyche … Continue reading →

Driving north out of Canberra, I am always struck by the arresting sight of Lake George. It is a vast, flat expanse of land and more often than not, devoid of water. Looking beyond Lake George, perched atop of rolling … Continue reading →

The beginning The blog deadline was creeping closer, when a friend told me about the volunteer work she was undertaking for a Canberra organisation she described as ‘a hub of many environmental groups’. She furthermore described to me how she … Continue reading →