Tag Archives: Australia

A 25 year commitment to digging for answers in the sand

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Aaron Greenville

Remote regions of Australia are rarely studied, but one research group from the School of Biological Sciences has been heading to the Simpson Desert for the last 25 years. This long-distance relationship has endured droughts, floods, fires and flies, but: … Continue reading →

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Of mice and dogs

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Aaron Greenville

New study suggests that the role of the dingo in controlling smaller predators is more complex than first thought. A surveillance operation is underway in one of the most remote parts of the Australian continent. For 24 hours a day … Continue reading →

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Photography inspiring conservation: Rock Island Bend

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Aaron Greenville

From the early days of photography the natural world has provided inspiration, providing the viewer a glimpse into remote and exotic places. Intrepid photographers have hiked in kilograms of photographic gear to capture the first static image, but are these … Continue reading →

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Predicting rat plagues in the heart of the continent

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Aaron Greenville

They ate the supplies belonging to Burke and Wills, and more recently chewed on the electrical wiring through-out homesteads, and have even disrupted communication networks. An invasion that presumably leaves the Channel Country in western Queensland and spreads out across … Continue reading →

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Conversation: Will we hunt dingoes to the brink like the Tasmanian tiger?

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Aaron Greenville

By Aaron Greenville, University of Sydney and Glenda Wardle, University of Sydney The last Tasmanian tiger died a lonely death in the Hobart Zoo in 1936, just 59 days after new state laws aimed at protecting it from extinction were … Continue reading →

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While Abbott fumbles abroad, at home Australians demand action on climate change.

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Aaron Greenville

By day four of the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw, Australia had won its third Fossil Award; the award given by the international Climate Action Network to the country which has done the most to block progress at the … Continue reading →

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Not another blog?!

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Aaron Greenville

I have finally succumbed to the temptation of writing a blog. Not another blog?! –  I hear you say. Well yes. I am writing this as helicopters fly over head and sirens scream up the highway, off fighting a bush … Continue reading →

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