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Author Archives: Biodiversity Conservation Blog
Developing Stepping-Stones to Connect the Inhabitants of Box-Gum Woodland Patches
Daniel F. Martinez-Escobar U5182783 Box-Gum Woodland once covered a large area of south-eastern Australia. It is home to various species of birds, lizards, frogs and invertebrates. However, since European settlement began, 92% of its area has been cleared for grazing … Continue reading
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Vegetation assessment at Bago State Forest
Alexander Pecenko (u5333012) My work experience for the ENVS3039 Biodiversity Conservation course (4–7 April 2015) involved assisting Dr Heather Kieth with data collection at Bago State Forest, NSW, for research of the forest’s carbon cycle (more information here). Location of … Continue reading
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Innovation in Biodiversity Conservation – servicing our debt to Pachamama
We all know the range of benefits that biodiverse ecosystems bring, right? As a source of food, materials, medicine, shelter and refuge, in addition to providing valuable natural services like carbon sequestration and filtering toxic substances and a realm of … Continue reading
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Rescuing birds in Jaipur, India
India, as one of the 10 biggest countries in the world, supports a rich biodiversity. This is due to the different ecosystems that we can find in the country, from deserts to rainforests. In the state of Rajhastan alone, we … Continue reading
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Microbats and Microphones
Our work experience began with a warm welcome to the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage by employees Suzie Lamb and Doug Mills. We were setting out to conduct monitoring of the Eastern Bent-Wing bat, a vulnerable species of microbat … Continue reading
Frogs, Lizards and Habitat Fragmentation
By Talia Gedik The Problem Habitat loss is the largest single cause of biodiversity loss worldwide.1 One problem associated with it is habitat fragmentation (“the division of large, continuous habitats into smaller, more isolated remnants”).2 Habitat fragmentation has a number … Continue reading
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Mulligans flat sanctuary: The return of Bettongs
It’s rare to find a sanctuary for native flora and fauna in the capital city of a country, but Mulligan’s Flat Woodland Sanctuary is one of those rarities. This sanctuary encloses over 400 hectares of critically endangered yellow box and … Continue reading
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The tragedy of Lipotes vexillifer in China
China has vast land area, so it is rich in biodiversity. In this area, we can find several unique animal species, such as Panda and Lipotes vexillifer. Lipotes vexillifer is one of the Platanistoidea in the world, until now, there … Continue reading
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Towards a ‘win-win’ solution: Native Temperate Grasslands and wind farm developments in the Southern Tablelands
By Ishbel Cullen In April this year I joined staff from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage on a site visit to a wind farm biodiversity offset site for Native Temperate Grassland on the Monaro plains in the Southern … Continue reading
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Marking blogs is one of the great pleasures of being a lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation!
I’ve just read—and marked—every blog posted by the 2014 class studying Biodiversity Conservation at The Australian National University. Usually the prospect of marking 60+ papers has lecturers and tutors looking for an excuse to do something else, or at least … Continue reading
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