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Tag Archives: Biodiversity Conservation
Banking on seed conservation
Trees. We plant them, we chop them down. We build our houses from them. We get our food from them. We sit under them and contemplate the meaning of life. We complain about them. Trees do a lot for us, … Continue reading
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The ACT’s Endangered Striped Legless Lizards: Giving them a leg to stand on
Tianna Clarkson – U7524109 Meet the Lizard To an outside observer, it might come as a surprise that the unassuming grasslands of the Australian Capital Territory are rich with diversity of life. One of the species to call these areas … Continue reading
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Our waterways…BUGGER! How water bugs are used to illustrate the health of our waterways
By Bex Hadfield (u7522737), Word Count: 500 A day of work experience sampling and recording water bugs to measure the water quality of freshwater rivers in the ACT and upper Murrumbidgee catchment area. This is part of long-term citizen-science research … Continue reading
Verbascum thapus – a threat to biodiversity in the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor
References ALA, 2021. Verbascum thapsus L., Atlas of Living Australia. Available at: https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/weeds-australia/profile/Verbascum%20thapsus (accessed 16 September 2022). DCCEEW, D. o. C. C., Energy, Environment and Water, 2021. Australia’s State of the Environment 2021, Available at: https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/pressures/invasive-species-and-range-shifts GCT, 2021. Weed Managment … Continue reading
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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
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Platypus: Plethora or Paucity?
Hannah Evans (u6680603) Despite maintaining their geographic range across Eastern Australia, platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) populations are dropping. At least 100 unique species have become extinct in Australia since European settlement. With the worst mammal extinction rate of any country, monitoring … Continue reading
Biodiversity Offsets: Canberra’s Ecological Prisons
Jake Adlam – u6078885 Biodiversity offsets were introduced to the ACT in the Planning and Development Act 2007, as a way of meeting environmental requirements established by the 1999 Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC). They have been growing … Continue reading
Why do we monitor frogs? Since 1970, freshwater species show a decline of 76% and frogs and other batrachians are among the most threatened ones. Frogs are important bio-indicators and are even considered a “bellwether species”. It means that they … Continue reading
Protecting birds in the Bush Capital: the role of community-based activities to improve biodiversity conservation
An overview of Canberra’s bird diversity The “Bush Capital” is surrounded by grasslands, woodlands and wetlands that provide breeding and foraging habitats for many animal species. (Environment and Planning Directorate, 2014). However, these landscapes are under threat. Population growth and … Continue reading
Greening Australia: working towards ‘Conservation without Borders’
My experience Over the past two months, I’ve had the opportunity to work with Greening Australia. Our outings to Scottsdale were cancelled as a result of the weather, I ended up joining their weekly volunteer program which runs Wednesdays and Thursdays. Wednesdays: In the … Continue reading
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