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Monthly Archives: June 2016

World Environment Day 2016: zero tolerance for the illegal wildlife trade

Illegal wildlife trade has been estimated between $10 billion and $20 billion a year, comparable to illegal trade of drugs or weapons. The Pangolin or scaly ant-eater, is thought to be the most traded mammal in the world, and are poached and traded for almost every part of their body. Their scales are believed to […]

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May Publications: Garden of Eden alternatives, understanding flood hazards and feral pigs with the flu

This list is harvested from the University of Adelaide’s Aurora. Some articles may not appear in this list if they have not been yet added to the register. Argent, R. M., Sojda, R. S., Guipponi, C., McIntosh, B., Voinov, A. A., & Maier, H. R. (2016). Best practices for conceptual modelling in environmental planning and […]

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Vodcast: Water stress in South Australian flora

We may be the land of drought and flooding rains, but we know that climate change will only exacerbate these extremes. Stefan Caddy Retalic talks about South Australia’s ecology and the many ways our ecosystems may change with various climate change scenarios. He has created a tool to measure the extent to which various ecosystems respond to climate […]

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