Landholders and volunteers hold the key to controlling invasive species across Australia, but often government arrangements hamper their efforts. That’s the message from Professor Paul Martin, Director of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law at UNE, as he wraps up a four-year study of how citizens can play in combatting the compounding cost of…
Tag: environment
Sowing seeds of diversity knowledge
A study of Australian wildflower communities is improving understanding of how climatic stress controls plant diversity, based on the strategies different species use to survive, grow and reproduce. (more…)
Riverina in good hands on World Environment Day
Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister, Luke Hartsuyker, said the Riverina community was working hard with the support of Australian Government Landcare grants to generate practical results at a grass roots level across the Riverina. (more…)
Climate change roundtable to guide our farming future
The Victorian Government has convened a Roundtable to explore how Victoria’s agribusiness and primary producers can best continue to work at adapting to a hotter and drier climate. (more…)
Graziers back conservation
The future conservation of a species of nocturnal parrot thought to be extinct until 2013 has the support of western Queensland’s grazing community, according to a survey. (more…)
Australia’s largest solar farm
First Solar, Inc. has been awarded the module supply contract for the 140 megawatt (MW) DC Sun Metals Solar Farm in North Queensland (QLD), Australia. (more…)