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... a trajectory of change. Culturally, these changes include a shift in attitudes to the species from agricultural pest and popular native bird to a vilified, “overabundant” native species and nemesis of small woodland birds. Ecologically, changes have included an expansion in distribution and abundance of Noisy...

...Oliver Costello; Noel Webster; Dan Morgan A statement on the cultural importance of the dingo Oliver Costello, Noel Webster and Dan Morgan Representatives of the Bundjalung,Yuin Walbunja, and Southern Yuin Tribes DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.028 Dingo is language down home in Warragul. He s...

... lakes. They guided people safely across hundreds of kilometers of desert, locating the places where water sources reach up closest to the earth’s surface from the underground lakes and waterways that flow beneath the continent. The dingo’s status in Aboriginal culture is celebrated in the naming...

... porridge plate, weaned on Peter Rabbit stories, and grow up to Watership Down , you are not instinctively a supporter of rabbit pest management strategies. Jim Sutton [Minister of Agriculture at the time] addresses the Veterinarians Association, Wellington 2003. Nick Smith s analysis of the cultural...

... of the culture is only beginning to be realised by the researchers. Traditional ecological knowledge illustrates how Aboriginal people have learned to survive and live in their environment, but the gradual loss of such knowledge (especially with the death of senior men and elders) and the devastation...

... evaluation of pond-fattened school prawns Metapenaeus macleayi (Haswell). Aquaculture 16: 261-5. Taste panel evaluation of pond-fattened school prawns Metapenaeus macleayi (Haswell) Aquaculture 16 261 5 MAGUIRE, G. B. (1976). Pond culture of prawns. Fisherman, 5(2): 12-6. Pond culture...

... eutherians) and a large flightless bird (the southern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius ) were collected and processed in 84 moist chamber cultures. Fifty-two percent of these cultures yielded evidence (fruiting bodies and/or plasmodia) of myxomycetes. Eleven species belonging to seven genera were recorded...

... been told by Indigenous Australians that the echidna and platypus laid eggs. In this paper I briefly summarise aspects of the significance of monotremes in some mainland Aboriginal cultures, and the attempts by the naturalist George Bennett to discover if platypuses were oviparous. In Tasmania...

...Thomas Newsome Few animals in Australia evoke as much controversy as the dingo. There are debates about its cultural significance, what to call it, and its ecological and economic impacts. Resolving these debates requires consensus and agreement among researchers, land managers and other...

...D A Damodaran ABSTRACT Reef forming bivalves like mussels and oysters have undergone massive declines due to many factors including increasing habitat loss. Bivalves provide important ecosystem functions and services that include increasing biodiversity and providing sustenance and cultural...

... of William Rowley, about whom the little evidence which exists revolves around his use of and trade in his knowledge of the resources of Botany Bay, notably oysters and mangroves. Reference is also made to Biddy Giles, who used her knowledge to act as guide and cultural interpreter but also traded in native...

... affected by inter-related, recent and rapid developments of agriculture, animal husbandry, technology, social living and culture. Consequently, the foraging environment in which humans evolved is long gone, and our foraging may not be well adapted to current circumstances. Human foraging is therefore...