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Friday photo – Yellow Admiral butterfly, August 2014
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Tagged butterflies, ecological gardening, ecology, insects, local natives, nettles, weedscaping
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Wildlife in the city – a new way of perceiving habitat (part 2)
So, yesterday’s argument was that the place to focus our conservation attention is the matrix, the area outside the preserves. Where we live. if you start viewing our suburbs as the new habitat, how does this start making our cities … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, community, ecological gardening, ecology, fauna, flora, habitat, landscape design, rehabilitation, research, urban design, wildlife corridors
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Wildlife in the city – a new way of perceiving habitat (part 1)
A lot of the way we manage native flora and fauna is about remnants – those tiny (or not so) patches of land that are still usually relatively undisturbed. We take care of those and map them, survey them, try … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural design, cities, ecology, fauna, flora, habitat, rehabilitation, urban design, wildlife
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“Build it and they will follow” – said no koala ever
Interesting piece of research to cross my desk today: using koalas to assess whether environmental rehabilitation worked. It’s part of a larger picture going on in environmental science nowadays about how to make good decisions – which is tricky when … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, koalas, rehabilitation, research, science, vegetation plats
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