Perth is built on a swamp. These days there’s not too many swampy areas left because over 150 years they’ve been filled in and cleared for development. The most recent demise is the swamp I loved to drive past on my way home. Now I drive past a building site on which is appearing the [...]
Archive for June 28th, 2007
The Death of a Swamp
Posted in indigenous fauna, invasive species, Perth, tagged birds, frogs, Perth, redevelopment, reptiles, reserves, wetlands on 28 June 2007 | 3 Comments »
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"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
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I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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