For decades, researchers have sought proof this critically endangered possum existed in New South Wales. Now it’s arrived by sheer chance
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When a plant is stressed, it mobilises its resources and often converts its starch reserves back to sugar. As soon as this happens, the stressed plant becomes sweeter than its healthier neighbours.
When a big old tree dies or is cut down, even if we plant a new one we might have to wait hundreds of years before it provides a good possum house.
Timber company VicForests won its appeal last week and logging is set to resume. Let’s take a look at the dramatic implications for wildlife and the law.
As climate change increases the frequency and scale of bushfires, our models suggest the habitats in Victoria’s Central Highlands may be hard to come by.
It’s a stunning win for a small community group that relied on crowd funding to cover legal costs.
It takes a eucalyptus tree more than a hundred years to develop hollows suitable to shelter Aussie animals, and just moments to cut it down.
Increased sightings of endangered species doesn’t mean it’s recovering – but that’s the argument being made by the native forest logging industry.
A large new national park might sound like the best way to protect the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum. But it won’t do anything to save possums from the major threat of bushfire.
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Remote Sensing Scientist and Ecological Modeller, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne
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Director of the AFWI Centre for Climate Smart Forestry and Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney
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CEO of the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Forest and Landscape Dynamics, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Biodiversity, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow in Forest Dynamics and Statistical Modelling, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
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Threatened Species Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science Department, Zoos Victoria, and Visiting Scholar, School of Life & Environmental Science, Deakin University
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University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University
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Professor, Urban Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Melbourne; RMIT University