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By Juliet Stevens (u6104119) The BIG Issue: Drivers of Biodiversity Loss Biodiversity plays an important role in regulating environmental processes and enabling ecosystems to provide services which underpin human health and wellbeing.  Although it is essential for all life on … Continue reading →

By Mitch Trueman u6663746 To preserve Australia’s biodiversity, the commitments from the Commonwealth and State governments are simply not enough. Climate change, habitat destruction, ocean acidification and extinction continue to worsen due to our colonial history of land exploitation… It’s … Continue reading →

By Alice Kelly – U7287600. Word Count: 540 Agricultural lands across Australia play a crucial role in the economy, food security, and health of our nation. But so does healthy ecosystems and biodiversity. Agricultural productivity and environmental conservation have been … Continue reading →

By Clary Lau – u7524996 (word count: 550) With the recent upgrade of the conservation status from vulnerable to endangered in QLD, NSW and the ACT, Koalas are in imminent danger of extinction. The main threat to koalas is habitat … Continue reading →

Sustainable agriculture or regenerative farming have gained increased significance in the past decade as ‘buzz word’ terms touted to fix a myriad of issues from soil and biodiversity degradation to broader climate pressures of carbon emissions and water security. The … Continue reading →

Removing Burgan plants on Black Mountain by Siobhan Allpress, u6650891 It’s a box-gum world, and we’re just living in it Box-gum grassy woodland is one of the most threatened ecosystems in Australia, with only 10% remaining since pre-colonisation. It is … Continue reading →

Image 1: Female Superb Parrot taken at Justice Robert Park, Photo credit: Marina Fillipe Introduction As part of a recent work experience project I participated in a survey to measure the prevalence of Polytelis swainsonii, commonly known as the Superb Parrot, … Continue reading →

By Kristoffer Halkjær, u7525482 Different weeds are spreading like a pandemic across Australia. One of these wretched creations, seen from an Australian perspective, are Carthamus lanatus or perhaps better known as saffron thistle. As a participant of The friends of … Continue reading →

u6939856 Word count: 498 Despite having only 5 percent of the world’s land mass, 7 to 10 percent of all species on Earth are Australian, gifting the continent with an incredible amount of biodiversity. However, in the last 200 years, … Continue reading →