Pictures and Story by JAMES WOODFORD Additional pictures at Stuart Cohen’s Flickr site and at Rick Stevens’ Flickr site It is the mystery of the Montague Island “mouse” that shouldn’t be there. The eighty-hectare nature reserve, nine kilometres off the NSW South Coast town of Narooma has suffered a feral mouse plague that has lasted [...]
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Our Copenhagen Correspondent….
March 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · News
Dr Alistair Paterson is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Western Australia and in 2009 is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Copenhagen….Over the next few months as the world counts down to a crtical international climate change conference Real Dirt is hoping to run occasional news from Alistair. The latest conference [...]
Tags: climate change·copenhagen
King Tide: A Glimpse Into Waterworld
December 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments · News
By JAMES WOODFORD Phil Watson says 9.50 am on January 12 will be a preview of the state’s sea level future. Watson is the Team Leader of the Department of Environment and Climate Change’s Coastal Unit and for the first time has launched a program to document the flooding impacts of the highest tide visible [...]
Tags: climate change·coastal development·infrastructure·sea level rise
I Spy An Ibis
December 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · News
Having just returned from Townsville I know it is a long way away and I certainly couldn’t imagine getting there on my own steam. That’s why I was surprised to see a note from the Australian Museum that some of the White Ibis researchers have colour banded in Sydney have turned up in far [...]
Tags: habitat loss·ibis·wildlife survey
MASSIVE NEW MARINE PARK FOR SYDNEY?
December 4th, 2008 · 30 Comments · News
By JAMES WOODFORD A plan for a massive marine park stretching off Sydney’s coast, from Gosford in the north to the Royal in the south and three kilometres out to sea, will be launched today. The proposal by the National Parks Association of NSW(NPA) is ambitious, but, if successful, will lead to an overhaul [...]
Throwing the Babies Out With the Bucket Water
November 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments · News
Pictures and Story by JAMES WOODFORD This week Tim Fletcher threw out 70,000 babies with the bucket water. Fletcher’s job with the Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority, partly funded by the NSW Environmental Trust, is to help rehabilitate the Snowy – the nation’s most famous river. In the past three weeks Authority staff, local landowners, [...]
Tags: australian bass·ferals·snowy river·southern rivers catchment management authority
Rattus evictus: rodent eradication leads to new lease of life for island haven
November 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments · News
Story and Pictures by James Woodford See Stuart Cohen’s Flickr site - a fantastic collection of Brush Island photos from this week’s expedition After a night trying to sleep amidst thousands of feathered revellers, seabird scientist, Nicholas Carlile, says it is as if Brush Island has just survived a huge, impromptu party. Uninhabited by humans, the [...]
SHOALHAVEN RIVER GETS A REST FROM SYDNEY’S WATER GREED
November 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments · News
Picture and story by James Woodford The pumping of water from the Shoalhaven River to top up Sydney’s supply is to be stopped for at least three years, signalling a further easing of the city’s water crisis. The NSW Water Minister, Phillip Costa, will announce today a moratorium on the massive transfers of water from [...]
Carbon dioxide: economic nose dive with a triple pike?
October 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments · News
For the past twelve months, John Connor, Climate Institute CEO and a keen amateur bodysurfer, has been riding a huge left hander that’s been breaking off Point Climate Change, selling the message of cutting greenhouse gases. But in just a few short weeks that beautiful wave has closed out and emission cuts look like being smashed on [...]
Tags: climate change·economy
