Losing the plot: how native vegetation mapping went feral
The protection of native vegetation has long been a fraught issue in Australia, highlighted by the shooting in 2014 of Glen Turner, a NSW Office of Environment and Heritage compliance staffer allegedly...
View ArticleResearchers Use 'Seafloor Gardens' to Switch on Light Bulb (Ames Research...
(Source: Ames Research Center) This photo simulation shows a laboratory-created "chemical garden," which is a chimney-like structure found at bubbling vents on the seafloor. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech...
View ArticleScrapping the Native Vegetation Act would be a black day for nature in NSW...
(Source: WWF-Australia) Scrapping the Native Vegetation Act would be a black day for nature in NSW Posted on 26 March 2015 Conservation groups are appalled by the Coalition's announcement today that it...
View ArticleMadness, badness and sadness in spades
"Until philosophers rule as kings," wrote Plato, "cities will have no rest from evils, nor will the human race." By "philosophers" Plato didn't mean the glass-bead-game hand-wringers of contemporary...
View ArticleTe Matau a Maui Environmental Restoration (Department of Conservation of New...
(Source: Department of Conservation of New Zealand) A major partnership of local and national agencies will see more than $6 million invested in conservation in Hawke's Bay over the next 5 years. The...
View ArticleIndependent Biodiversity Review released (NSW Office of Environment and...
(Source: NSW Office of Environment and Heritage) Dateline Troy Grant MP Rob Stokes MP Deputy Premierof NSW Minister for the Environment MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 18 December 2014 INDEPENDENT BIODIVERSITY...
View ArticleNational Landcare grants start to flow across the Condamine (Australian...
(Source: Australian Government) Minister for the Environment The Hon. Barnaby Joyce MP Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources The Hon. Ian Macfarlane MP Federal Member for Groom Media release 27...
View ArticleNative Vegetation Act to be repealed, replaced with new and fairer system...
(Source: NSW Department of Primary Industries) Troy Grant Deputy Premier Mark Speakman Minister for the Environment Niall Blair Minister for Primary Industries Minister for Lands and Water Wednesday, 9...
View ArticleTom Uren, AC - a truly distinguished Australian (Charles Sturt University)
(Source: Charles Sturt University) Following the death of Mr Tom Uren, AC, on Monday 26 January, the nation reflected on his contribution as a parliamentarian, patriot and a truly distinguished...
View ArticleInterest in natural resources projects grows among farmers (NSW Local Land...
(Source: NSW Local Land Services) 22 September 2016 The call for applications for natural resources projects has generated plenty of interest among Northern Tablelands farmers, attracting almost 200...
View ArticleNSW government promises biodiversity win from land clearing laws
NSW "is not Queensland" when it comes to a controversial overhaul of land clearing laws, the state government has insisted, while promising to reverse decades of biodiversity decline. Announcing laws...
View ArticleReproductive mysteries of the dusky flathead (Charles Sturt University)
(Source: Charles Sturt University) A Charles Sturt University (CSU) research student aims to help sustainably manage a popular angling fish species in Victoria. Bachelor of Science (Honours) student Ms...
View ArticleEnvironmental insight from Kenya (Charles Sturt University)
(Source: Charles Sturt University) Charles Sturt University (CSU) student, Mr Matthew Lincoln has represented young Australians at the United Nations (UN) Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, as...
View ArticleAre you a landholder looking to make money from offsets? (Commodities Group Ltd)
(Source: Commodities Group Ltd) Tuesday, February 24, 2015 Protecting your bush and managing it for nature conservation can pay financial rewards. All over Australia developers of everything from...
View ArticleCSU ecologists join call for renewed Alpine brumby cull (Charles Sturt...
(Source: Charles Sturt University) Three Charles Sturt University (CSU) ecologists have joined a national group of scientists calling for rapid and humane control of feral horses, or brumbies, in...
View ArticleNSW land-clearing laws 'a failure' after even farmers come out in opposition
The Baird government's plan to loosen land-clearing laws in the state may struggle to get through Parliament, with the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party indicating they will heed opposition to the...
View ArticleEuropean honey bee steals the media spotlight (Charles Sturt University)
(Source: Charles Sturt University) Native insects play an important role in pollinating agricultural crops but it's the European honey bee that often gets the glory according to Charles Sturt...
View ArticleNSW state election 2015: Extend native vegetation laws, WWF says
Koala in Bradbury on Sydney's south-western edge. Photo: Cambelltown Advertiser Pressure is mounting on the Baird government to support the retention of key elements of anti land-clearing laws, with...
View Article'Bombshell': Just one-sixth of rural land-clearing tracked in NSW, ANU's...
Farmers are clearing land six times faster than detected by the NSW government, and most offsets used to compensate for vegetation destruction merely preserve existing conservation areas, according to...
View ArticleSouthern bell frogs breed again (Charles Sturt University)
(Source: Charles Sturt University) The low-growling call of the southern bell frog in a lagoon in the mid-Murrumbidgee River has Charles Sturt University (CSU) researchers excited. Monitoring by the...
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