Tasmanian Times
Environment
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1.9KPest Plants & Animals Cost Us $25b/yr and it’s Worsening
Shamefully, Australia has one of the highest extinction rates in the world. And the number one threat to our species is invasive...
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National Sustainable Oceans and Coasts Strategy
Media release – Australia Institute Tasmania, 29 July 2021 Marine and coastal leaders call for national strategy to protect oceans The 15th...
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South Korea is Bringing Back Bears in a Country of 52M People – I Went to Find Out How
The return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 popularised the idea of reintroducing long-lost species to modern habitats. While scientists...
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Measuring the January 2019 Fire
Measuring a Fire. The Story of the January 2019 Fire Told from Measurements at the Warra Supersite, Tasmania by Tim Wardlaw ARC...
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Changing Human Rubbish in Bird Nests
Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their...
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Covert Rewilding of Tasmanian Devils?
Tasmanian devil populations have been devastated over the past 25 years due to devil facial tumour disease, an infectious cancer. But the...
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How Dark Emu Debate Limits Representation of Aboriginal People
Anthropologist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe, recently published a book titled Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate. This book offers...
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You Want to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of your Food?
To reduce your carbon footprint, you should largely focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local.
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Meet the Broad-toothed Rat
Am I not pretty enough? This is the first article in The Conversation’s series introducing you to the unloved Australian animals that...
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Diet Wears Down Devil Dentures
Bones and all: see how the diets of Tasmanian devils can wear down their sharp teeth to blunt nubbins Tasmanian devils are expert...
