Last year I blogged about whether dingos were Australian, due to their (relatively) recent arrival in Australia from Asia. The Complete Book of Australian Mammals includes dingos (Canis lupus ssp. dingo) in the Introduced Mammals section [1]. The Introduced Species Summary Project of Columbia University also lists dingos, but describes them as “a near-native [...]
Posts Tagged ‘indigenous fauna’
Dingo, Dingo
Posted in Australia, tagged Animals, dingoes, endangered, indigenous fauna, invasive species on 2 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reaching for the sky
Posted in Perth, tagged birds, correction, Garden, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, insects, pest control, trees, tuart on 30 June 2009 | 5 Comments »
Earlier this year I blogged about the insect infestation of the young tuart in my garden.
Unfortunately the insects that have already made homes among the tuart’s leaves are causing quite a bit of damage…The problem is the sap-sucking psyllids, also known as eucalyptus lerps, because the nymph constructs a “lerp” to hide under.
In the [...]
Bushfire in Kings Park
Posted in Perth, tagged fire tolerant, bushfire, banksia, reserves, invasive species, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, Kings Park on 18 January 2009 | 3 Comments »
On Friday it was 41.8°C. It’s not usually quite that hot until February and the extreme weather didn’t help in controlling the fires which burnt in Perth and the south west [1].
The deliberately fire at Kings Park burnt 20ha of the Mt Eliza escarpment. Australia’s bush is resilient in regenerating after fire and the [...]
A pond in the garden
Posted in Garden, tagged indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, pond, water plants on 28 December 2008 | 6 Comments »
After much digging and shovelling and ripping out lawn, I have less lawn, more garden for native plants and a pond which one day might attract frogs.
Removing the lawn was a hell of a job. My dad and I did it together, although it was more like I helped my dad :P There were [...]
Pottering with Quokkas
Posted in Animals, tagged Albany W.A., endangered, evolution, extinction, indigenous fauna, potoroo, quokka on 29 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
More native plants
Posted in Garden, tagged birds, drought tolerant, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, Lullfitz Nursery, Nuts about Natives, Perth, saving water on 5 November 2008 | 4 Comments »
Now that summer’s almost here and my house is starting to cook during the day, I wanted a climbing plant to grow up the side of my house because the shade-giving African acacia is no more (although the stump keeps growing shoots and I keep lopping them off). My neighbours offered me a piece [...]
Dinner Time
Posted in Perth, tagged Animals, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, John Forrest National Park, reserves on 5 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
A month ago we went to John Forrest National Park to look at the wildflowers. The entrance fee is $10, but because we were on a motorbike, it only cost $5. The yellow of wattle was everywhere and the pinks, blues, red and orange of Isopogon, Leschenaultia and Daviesia, among others, and flittering butterflies, [...]
My Native Garden
Posted in Perth, tagged Garden, saving water, drought tolerant, Nuts about Natives, birds, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, bush tucker, Zanthorrea Nursery on 12 July 2008 | 4 Comments »
After planning my new native garden, it’s actually happened. I got the plants from my friends at Nuts about Natives and the new arrivals are now planted and growing for the birds and insects to enjoy. Most of them are native to Perth around the area I live.
These are the indigenous plants I now [...]
Leave the Trees
Posted in Western Australia, tagged carbon emissions, forest, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, industry, land clearing, land development, reptiles, trees on 2 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last month the WA Department of Conservation announced a review of WA’s native vegetation clearing legislation. This is aimed at improving the processes and environmental outcomes. WA State Environment Minister David Templeman said,
The review will examine the Environmental Protection (Clearing of Native Vegetation) Regulations 2004, and those parts of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 that [...]
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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