New environmental application, Habitat the Game, sends kids on real-life missions to save virtual endangered species and reduce their carbon footprint. Read the media release and download the free app (available for iOS, Android and tablet devices).
A new research paper published in Science assesses key statistics about species, their distribution, and their status, finding that current rates of extinction are about 1000 times the likely background rate of extinction (with thanks to ALERT Conservation).
Strategic approaches to biodiversity conservation can mitigate the cumulative impacts of development on biodiversity. For two perspectives on strategic approaches see Strategic approaches to planning for conservation and development on page 12 of the latest issue of Decision Point magazine, and …
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The first Master Plan in the almost 200 year history of the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and Domain has been released for community feedback. The draft Master Plan proposes more than 25 key proposals and ideas. You are invited to …
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The Australian PlantBank is a science and research facility of the New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, and is located at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan in south-western Sydney. It houses the Trust’s seedbank and research …
A newly published article in Conservation Biology, Continental-Scale Governance Failure Will Hasten Loss of Australia’s Biodiversity, expresses concern about the recent spate of substantial policy, legislative and management changes being made by three of six Australian state governments for exploitative …
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On 31 October 2012, the Senate referred the matter of ‘The effectiveness of threatened species and ecological communities protection in Australia’ to the Environment and Communications References Committee for inquiry and report. The inquiry report is now available.
The Nature Conservancy publication Innovation for 21st Century Conservation expresses the profound belief that retaining Australia’s unique and rich terrestrial and marine species and varied ecosystems is an urgent challenge that requires innovative partnerships across sectors, and illustrates a richness …
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The Australian Network for Plant Conservation (ANPC) is seeking articles for the June–August 2013 issue of Australasian Plant Conservation (APC), the bulletin of the ANPC. The issue will be on the theme ‘Fire and threatened biodiversity’. If you are intending …
Commonwealth Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has announced in a media release that the western Sydney dry rainforest and moist woodland on shale will be protected under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). Minister Burke said that …
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