A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the unusual rainfall this spring.
The start of November had 29.4mm over four days, already above the monthly average of 19.7mm. So far the less than average rainfall in September has not been cancelled out by November’s deluge. The average from 1 September to 30 November is 152mm [...]
Posts Tagged ‘frogs’
The Death of a Swamp
Posted in Perth, indigenous fauna, invasive species, tagged birds, frogs, Perth, redevelopment, reptiles, reserves, wetlands on 28 June 2007 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Frogs in the park
Posted in Perth, indigenous fauna, tagged Animals, birds, frogs, landscaping, libraries, Perth, property subdivision, redevelopment, Water on 5 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was walking with Sheeba the dog through the housing development near my house the other night and although some of the blocks are empty; the roads are asphalt, the empty land is sand, weeds and rubbish and the only water source is garden hoses and water features (feng shui all the way). Despite this [...]
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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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