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Tag Archives: biodiversity

Soil sampling gets underway at Booderee

Building Booderee’s soil knowledge

September 12, 2012by Parks Australia Leave a comment

Booderee has kicked off a new Parks Australia research partnership to document the biodiversity of Australian soils. With CSIRO and Bioplatforms Australia, we’re working to develop Australia’s first national dataset […]

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A possible new species of delicate blue-eye fish

Knowledge of Fish River’s biodiversity gets a boost

June 30, 2012by Parks Australia Leave a comment

        A black tarantula the size of a human hand and a minute four-eyed spider about half the size of an ant were among the plethora of […]

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Bush Blitz
Jewel beetles near Wreck Bay

Going walkabout

June 16, 2012by Parks Australia Leave a comment

Booderee National Park is one of New South Wales’ most outstanding landscapes and a hotspot for biodiversity so it’s no surprise staff have sighted some special residents. Booderee Botanic Gardens curator Bernie […]

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Designed by natural heritage officer Jim Clayton this trap has caught 21 cats at Uluru since April.

Good news and bad for fauna at Uluru

June 15, 2012by Parks Australia Leave a comment

Small mammals are flourishing at Uluru following above average rainfall during the last 12 months which has produced the best environmental conditions since 2002. This year, a species never before […]

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Uluru-Kata Tjuta

New truffle species named

March 10, 2012by Parks Australia Leave a comment

It’s not just the likes of Beyonce who get new species named after them! A new species of native truffle found on Neds Corner Station during a recent Bush Blitz has […]

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Bush Blitz

We’re going on a Bush Blitz…to Neds Corner Station

November 19, 2011by Parks Australia Leave a comment

Scientists from across Australia will ‘blitz’ Neds Corner Station in Victoria’s mallee country next week — spending some 2,000 hours over 10 days surveying the reserve’s plants and animals. The scientists expect they’ll […]

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Bush Blitz
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Parks Australia the lead agency on the Nagoya Protocol

June 20, 2011by Parks Australia Leave a comment

Parks Australia is now the lead agency implementing the Nagoya Protocol (negotiated last year through the Convention on Biological Diversity). As Australia’s lead agency implementing the Nagoya Protocol, Parks Australia […]

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