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Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people....
Indigenous rangers in the Western Desert area of northern Western Australia recently spotted a small mole covered in silky golden hair, marking the second sighting in six months. The desert region is home to unique species adapted to the hot, dry environment. The rangers play a crucial role in monitoring and protecting these...
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A 20-year experiment conducted by Colorado State University researchers in Yellowstone National Park found that restoring apex predators like wolves was not a quick fix for ecosystems degraded by their absence. While wolf reintroduction lowered elk populations, willows and aspens did not recover as strongly as expected even...
Well, the next best thing....
Usually I post to slrpnk.net and they are currently on 0.18.5. None of my posts/comments (2 posts, 1 comment) are federating....
Silvia Pinca purchased 80 acres of land in New Zealand that was previously used as a pine plantation. She is working to rewild the land by removing invasive species like pines, pampas grass, and banana passionfruit and replanting native trees and shrubs. So far she has removed over 32,000 pines and planted hundreds of native...
Residents of Colaton Raleigh village in Devon, England were upset after discovering that 100 ancient beech trees located on a conservation site had been felled without consulting the local community. The Forestry Commission approved an application by a local landowner to cut down the trees. Residents said the trees were an...
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The article discusses a new Australian innovation called PYROCO that uses high heat to turn waste like sewage sludge and food waste into a carbon-rich product called biochar. This process removes pathogens and can turn waste into resources like fertilizer or materials for batteries. The technology has undergone trials and shows...
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The North East Forests Alliance is calling for ministerial intervention to protect fire-affected habitat after a disappointing Land and Environment Court ruling today....
Some midwestern fields are still bordered by hedgerows, but most US farmers don’t plant hedgerows and are skeptical of their benefits, worrying that they might introduce pests or predators to their farmland....
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Ferrero, the company behind Nutella, has decided to discontinue its hazelnut farming venture in Australia....
This is a future I don’t want to live in....
The federal government is reforming our national environmental law....
A new national recovery plan has been adopted to help save the world’s only wild macadamia plants from extinction....
Across Earth’s ecosystems, the carbon cycle circulates carbon in solid or gaseous forms between rocks, soils, vegetation, the ocean, and the atmosphere....
The Bureau of Meteorology considers sustained IOD index values above +0.4°C as typical of a positive IOD event....
Not enough has been done to increase cultural burning since the Bushfires Royal Commission recommended incorporating more Indigenous land management practices, a leading cultural burning practitioner says....
Federal and state agricultural ministers have agreed to continue researching a herpes virus for potential release into Australian waterways overrun with carp, but an expert says doing so risks wasting time and money....
Australia’s decision to abandon efforts to eradicate varroa mite is triggering an exodus of backyard and hobby beekeepers....
n the warm shallows of a small coral cay on Queensland’s Coral Coast, a spotted fish peeks out of its cave, eyes darting sideways looking for predators....
More than half of Australia’s unique plants have not been assessed to determine whether they are at risk of extinction, scientists warn....
