Outback Gondwana Foundation
www.ogf.org.au
Each year, OGF offers 1 or 2 places at the Eromanga Dinosaur Project’s digs for an Earth Sciences student interested in gaining paleontological field experience. Currently this is a service that OGF provides to help further the science and provide an opportunity for these students. The only costs they would need to meet is a daily meal cost. Please note that preference for these students will be given to local students from the SWQ region. Should you need any more information for this, we would be happy to provide what we can.
Brighter Prospects: Enhancing the Resilience of Australia.
http://www.australia21.org.au/pdf/A21%20Brighter%20Prospects%20Report.pdf
Brian Walker explains in his foreword that: 'The essays are an eclectic mix, chosen to cover a range of issues in which resilience plays a central role. They are not intended to be a complete or definitive set, but collectively they raise the issues that Australia needs to address, at all levels of society, if we are to develop along a trajectory of non-declining human wellbeing. I commend this volume to all those with an interest in Australia's future'.
Aspects of resilience covered relate to climate change (written by Paul Barratt), bioscurity (Stephn Prowse), peak oil (Ian Dunlop), population health (Richard Eckersley), the global economy (Nick Gruen and John Quiggin), ecosystem resilience (Steve Cork).
Climate Change in Queensland: What the Science is Telling Us
http://www.climatechange.qld.gov.au/
The latest assessment of potential negative impacts from climate change shows Queensland has much to lose if current projections are realised. This information was recently released in the report, Climate Change in Queensland: What the Science is Telling Us, compiled by the Queensland Government’s Office of Climate Change.
The report shows Queensland is particularly vulnerable to climate change because:
• many of our important sectors (agriculture, tourism) are climate-dependent;
• most of our population lives on the coast and are at risk from more extreme weather and rising sea levels; and
• our ecologically rich areas, such as the Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics, are vulnerable to a significant loss of biodiversity.
CarbonLink
http://www.carbonlink.com.au/
CarbonLink is a private Australian company owned by educators, scientists and entrepreneurs whose desire is to improve the planet by reducing atmospheric CO2 while improving the lot of our food producers. The company has been established to provide services in the international carbon trading marketplace.
CarbonLink is focusing on the role of soil in sequestering carbon from the atmosphere to offset our emissions and reduce our carbon footprint.
Atlas of Living Australia
http://www.ala.org.au/
The Atlas of Living Australia is a five-year project funded under the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
Its mission is to develop a biodiversity data management system which will link Australia’s biological knowledge with its scientific and agricultural reference collections and other custodians of biological information.
Wildlife Friendly Fencing
http://www.wildlifefriendlyfencing.com/
The wildlife friendly fencing project is raising awareness of the impact of barbed wire and netting on Australian wildlife, especially bats, birds and gliders, and developing guidelines for good practice. More than 70 wildlife species have been identified in Australia as occasional or regular victims of barbed wire fences. Each year thousands of these animals face a cruel death or permanent injuries from entanglement. Many of the survivors are euthanased as they are unreleasable. Barbed wire is both an animal welfare and conservation issue, as it is now being recognised as a threatening process in the draft / recovery plans for a number of species. These include the Yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis), the Magogany glider (Petaurus gracilis), the Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) and Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalis).
Griffith News Article- Griffith Leads Climate Change Adaptation
http://www3.griffith.edu.au/03/ertiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=14281
An article from the Griffith News website of Griffith University.
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/impacts/about.html
A branch of the Australian Government's Department of Climate Change website, focusing on the impacts of climate change and neccessary adaptations to these impacts.
Concepts for private sector fund conservation using tax effective instruments
http://downloads.lwa2.com/downloads/publications_pdf/PR071389.pdf
Farm Life Forum
http://farmlifeforum.com/smf/index.php
Discuss all things farming with people from Australia and New Zealand.
