Earlier in the year I read about Gilbert’s Potoroo (Potorous gilbertii) in Landscope magazine. They were thought to be extinct by the early 1900s, but a population on Mt Gardner in Two Peoples Bay, Albany was discovered in 1994 by a graduate student trapping for Quokkas (Setonix brachyurus). Trapping in suitable habitat along the south [...]
Posts Tagged ‘extinction’
Pottering with Quokkas
Posted in Animals, tagged Albany W.A., endangered, evolution, extinction, indigenous fauna, potoroo, quokka on 29 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is the dingo Australian?
Posted in Australia, tagged Animals, books, cats, dogs, extinction, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, invasive species on 10 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
Are you thinking, “Of course the dingo is Australian, what else would it be?”
I just read Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia by Adrian Franklin (UNSW Press, 2006) and it got me thinking about dingoes, cats and Illyarri gum trees. Animal Nation is about Franklin’s research into our views on animals. [...]
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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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