Weed Management in Australia is a high energy industry. It is based on mowing, slashing, burning, mulching, spraying, grazing. Whilst prevention is the obvious first step in weed management, Australia’s horticultural and agricultural industries have offered little help. These industries are responsible for many plant species being used, sold, distributed and promoted … Continue reading →
Flora of Mt Warning SEARCH at bluecray Advocacy Links Customised Search SGAP SEED BANK information about the Society for Growing Australian Plants Seed Banks – Queensland Branch Australian Native Plants Society – Australian Seed Suppliers for Native Seed . Native vegetation Management: A Needs Analysis of Regional Service Delivery in Queensland – … Continue reading →
Education, especially when it incorporates CONTINUITY and places Environmental Learning above Economic Learning, is extremely valuable. This is so, both for Australians and indeed, the entire WORLD. THE THREE “R” – reading, writing and arithmetic, when integrated fully within an ENVIRONMENTAL learning base, can give our youth incredible knowledge and prepare them … Continue reading →
Roadsides that are weed infested, can often be changed by careful long term care and management. Road verges that that are often mowed, are wonderful sources of plant material for native habitat revegetation purposes. Included, in this concept of road verges, are also stock routes and other transport corridors, rail and powerline … Continue reading →
The illegal clearing of a Koala Habitat and home to other threatened Wildlife species of the Tweed shire in the Northern Rivers of NSW has shed yet more attention on the plight of the Koalas of the Mt Warning Caldera Region of Australia. This illegal clearing, whilst being scrutinised by the National … Continue reading →
Australia was once a vast group of individual and inter-related Nations of Land and Water Custodians. The Australian Aboriginal People managed the Forestry and Vegetation Resources of Australia so well, that when the Europeans arrived and began to remove timber trees for their agriculture, buildings, towns, industries, transport and possessions, there was … Continue reading →
Condong Mill, Sunshine Electricity, Delta energy, individual land owners and other Bioenergy consortiums, providers, merchants and “tradespeople” are currently conducting a war on biodiversity in the Northern rivers of NSW, Australia. How? By working with Forests NSW to destructively harvesting Camphor Laurels as biofuels to create GREEN ENERGY. They are currently doing … Continue reading →
Fireweed (Senecio madagascariensis), is a beautiful yellow flowering herbaceous weed that has spread throughout NE NSW and SE Qld (and also elsewhere in Australia) due to poor land management. It is a health risk to stock and native animals and can invade poorly managed lands easily with its profuse production of wind … Continue reading →
