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U7117233 – Lucy Stuart Biodiversity conservation in urban environments is a growing area of concern for environmentalists. Ongoing global population growth and the housing affordability crisis are driving new housing developments into biodiversity hotspots, creating questions around how to best … Continue reading →

u6535405 – See Cheng Unlike other bloggers, I did my work experience indoor as I have experienced a knee injury. Therefore, I have chosen the online work experience opportunity for my work experience in Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), where … Continue reading →

Around 55% of the Australian land mass is used for agriculture, resulting in a vastly modified landscape. Images such as the one below are a common sight across Australia, vast plains of land used for cropping or livestock with not … Continue reading →

By Stuart Viney u5955036 Romeo has gone roam about in Straithnairn! He’s been on a suburban stroll, searching for his star-crossed lover, Juliet. But there never has been a tale of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo, … Continue reading →

Madeleine Bessell-Koprek (u7132499) What is common mullein and why is it a problem? Walking through the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor, looking over the Murrumbidgee river and across to the mountains, you could be forgiven for happily thinking you are in a … Continue reading →

By Liam MacLeod (u7288792) Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to observe and work on some different greenspaces within the Ginnninderry development, situated in West Belconnen, ACT. A short description of these treatments is outlined … Continue reading →

Isobel Bender u6673141 – 550 words It is an unfortunate conundrum, that while biodiversity (diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems) is declining at a rate faster than any other time in human history, sites of high conservation value … Continue reading →

Maddy Saunders – U7114895 Setting Citizen Scientists, you and I, are the future of data processing. Recently I spent a few hours being part of a team of superheros tasked with scrolling through picture after picture of koalas, birds and … Continue reading →

u6697837 Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world and one significant driver of this is introduced species such as foxes and cats. In Australia, foxes and cats combined kill more than 1.4 billion mammals per year. Wandiyali-Environa Wildlife … Continue reading →

U7515137 On the 20th of September, I partook in a volunteer work experience project run by the ACT government programme ‘Waterwatch’. The project focuses on water quality in the streams and rivers of the ACT and NSW catchment area. In … Continue reading →