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... s environmental problems from the loss of species to the contamination of land, air and water. Changes in Africa in the last 50 years exemplifies these claims: the population increased by 272% but the per capita Ecological Footprint the goods and services used by an average person...

... is booming and history tells us that the rangelands will suffer further as a result. Additionally, ‘cluster’ fencing, introduced in some areas for wild dog control, is being hailed as a good way to ‘manage’ kangaroos. The future of the rangelands remains bleak. drought cluster fencing fencing feral...

...Daniel Lunney 203February 2003 AustralianZoologist volume 32 (2) Thoughts on good writing and the recent CSIRO Report Future Dilemmas EDITORIAL I was curious to find out why many environmental/ scientific writers cannot get their ideas across to the general public. So I decided, as a test...

... of pictures. Good pictures can make all the difference. A compelling photo can gain a story prominent newspaper coverage; and the rule is that without interesting pictures, there is no television story. There is a lot scientists can do to make the media work to their advantage. Unless they learn to use...

..., Pteropus poliocephalus, (Megachiroptera: Pteropidae) in relation to increased bone strain and the failure of a good hypothesis M.B. Bennett and M.R. Forwood Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, 4072 Australia E-mail: [email protected] m.forwood...

...) and the following information was obtained from that one source. Bell frogs (Litoria aurea and L. raniformis) were introduced to New Zealand in the late 19th century. The first documented introductions were conducted by the Bell frog populations in New Zealand - good news or bad news? Phillip J. Bishop Department...

... at the next stop. All the people visited were living from eating the fish they caught as well as selling their fish and other goods. So, the accounts of these travellers, although revolving around Biddy, sketch a network of local knowledge, based on Aboriginal people but also sometimes the settlers living...

... a good blood supply and these become filled up, i.e., saturated with nitrogen first. Conversely tissues with a poor blood supply become saturated last. Now let us consider the off-loading of nitrogen. When a diver rises towards the surface the whole process is reversed. The nitrogen leaves the tissues...