Weeds, Biodiversity and Australia’s Land and Water Stewardship Practices

Weeds, Biodiversity and Australia’s Land and Water Stewardship Practices

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

Living with and managing Fireweed in SE Qld and NE NSW

Living with and managing Fireweed in SE Qld and NE NSW

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

Illegal clearing Cudgen Nature Reserve – a balance of faeries revisited

ARCHANGEL GABRIEL and the BUTTERFLY EFFECT

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

Flora Links

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