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Tag Archives: National Reserve System

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

Discovering the truth about true bugs

May 31, 2012by Parks Australia Leave a comment

 Bugs, beetles, moths, crickets, katydids and more have been attracted to the light of the night-trapping sheet at Fish River’s Bush Blitz - fluttering, crawling and hopping around the light, over […]

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Bush Blitz, National Reserve System

WWF praises Australia’s National Reserve System

July 6, 2011by Parks Australia Leave a comment

An independent audit by WWF-Australia has praised efforts to build the National Reserve System as ‘arguably the Australian Government’s biggest conservation success story’. Environment Minister Tony Burke today launched the […]

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National Reserve System

Subterranean bugs discovered on Cane River Bush Blitz

June 29, 2011by Parks Australia Leave a comment

  An array of subterranean invertebrates — never previously recorded by science — are just some of the amazing discoveries scientists are making here in Western Australia’s Pilbara. The weather […]

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Bush Blitz, National Reserve System

Biodiscovery blitz at Cane River, Western Australia

June 24, 2011by Parks Australia Leave a comment

I’m heading out bush next week to join a team of about 15 scientists exploring Western Australia’s Pilbara region on a biodiscovery mission! It’s all part of the nation-wide Bush Blitz […]

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Bush Blitz, National Reserve System

Wombats at Bon Bon

January 12, 2011by Parks Australia 1 Comment

Where can you find a hungry vegetarian with an aversion to hot weather? At Bon Bon Station Reserve in South Australia! The southern hairy-nosed wombats toughen it out here in […]

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National Reserve System

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