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Seminar: Using soundscapes to detect forest degradation
Dr Zuzana Burivalova, postdoctoral research fellow from Princeton University, will present a seminar entitled “Using soundscapes to detect different degrees of tropical forest degradation”. Abstract Communities and indigenous people play a fundamental role in tropical forest management and they are often efficient at preventing deforestation. In Papua New Guinea, the majority of land is officially […]
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Overgrazed land restoration study underway
Monarto Zoo is playing host to an overgrazed land restoration study led by the University of Adelaide, with partners including Zoos South Australia and the University of Queensland. The purpose of the study, which will take 30 years to complete, is to identify the most effective methods in restoring overgrazed land back to native […]
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Issue 4 of e-Science out now!
Issue 4 of the Faculty of Sciences e-Science Magazine is out now! The new and exciting Issue 4 of e-Science features: How fossils reveal the hot and wet world of the Eocene The possibilities of plastic solar cells How evolution is helping to make better wine The effects of deforestation on genetic diversity of forest […]
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Saving forests? Take a leaf from insurance industry’s book
A group of environmental scientists, including Environment Institute member Professor Corey Bradshaw, say a problem-ridden economic model designed to slow deforestation can be improved by applying key concepts from the insurance industry. REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) is a UN-promoted scheme that allows countries to trade in carbon credits to keep forests […]
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Pollen can protect mahogany from extinction
New research involving Environment Institute members Martin Breed and Andy Lowe, could help protect one of the world’s most globally threatened tree species – the big leaf mahogany – from extinction. Big leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) is the most prized mahogany timber around the world. It is at risk of extinction in its native habitats […]
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New Paper: iREDD hedges against avoided deforestation’s unholy trinity of leakage, permanence and additionality
A new paper involving Environment Institute member Professor Corey Bradshaw, as well as Penny van Oosterzee (Biocarbon Pty Ltd and James Cook University) and James Blignaut (University of Pretoria, South Afica) has recently been published in the journal Conservation Letters. The paper, titled ‘iREDD hedges against avoided deforestation’s unholy trinity of leakage, permanence and additionality’ […]
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