... was localised and of relatively low intensity, and before significant land clearance for wheat cropping. Disease Shortridge was informed by "old settlers" of the Carnarvon district that as late as the 1880s "wallabies were as plentiful around Carnarvon as on Bernier Island and the idea of everyone here seems...

... with cereal crops. This brought Double Gee seed buried in earlier seasons to the surface. On one occasion, I observed a flock of Red-tailed Black Cockatoos feeding on a patch of land newly seeded with wheat. While I was watching the birds, the owner of the land stopped to ask what I was doing. He...

... any meat at all. But before scratching rangelands-produced red meat off the good to eat list, let s put presumptions about these ethical and environmental issues to the test. Published figures from CSIRO and other sources in relation to Australia suggest that producing wheat and other grains...

... of the Bathurst area and overgrazing occurred regularly (Pearson and Lennon 2010). Grazing and clearing for farming spread in surges west from these initial settlements across the catchments. The area of inland NSW sown with crops each year in the wheat belt (excluding fallow or ploughed land) has been estimated...

...: gold, wool and wheat became export staples (not least because they travelled well). Until recently, only the macadamia nut had made it out of Australia to the rest of the world, and then only with cultivars developed in Hawai i (Burt and Williams 1988). Despite some early efforts to build variety...

... of native vegetation, provision of cereal crops and introduced weeds of agriculture, and establishment of water for domestic livestock (Saunders et al. 1985; Saunders and Ingram 1995). Major Mitchell s s Cockatoo is near the western limit of its distribution. Carnaby s Cockatoo is listed as endangered under...

... as feral, and there are a further 8 mentions of genetically modified crops supporting this idea. Plants are understood differently in agricultural and biodiversity contexts. Lesley Head and colleagues argue that plants like wheat have become so much agricultural commodities that we have forgotten...

... Introduction Woodlands once covered a million square kilometres of Australia and dominated what are now the wheatbelts of south-eastern and south-western Australia (Yates and Hobbs 1997). Extensive grazing and clearing for cereal cropping has greatly reduced and modified these woodlands (Yates and Hobbs 1997...

... dingoes Canis lupus on sheep stations and various ducks in rice fields, to flying-foxes (Pteropus spp.) in orchards, emus Dromaius novaehollandiae in the wheat belts and plagues of Australian locusts Chortoicetes terminifera in cereal crops. In a sense, all wild animals on farms threaten the enactment...

... is proposed there in the near future (S. Campbell Forests NSW pers. comm. August 2012). Sections of the forest were also leased under occupation permits for stock grazing and, in the central treeless area, wheat cropping (Anon. 1966). A principal concern of foresters in the mid 20th century was to ensure...

... point out, these crops are typically cereals (wheat, maize, barley, triticale, etc) and oilseeds (soybeans, sunflowers, canola, etc) that with little processing can supply the nutritional needs of humans (eg Australian Chicken Meat Federation Inc. (2011; Australian Pork 2011). In order to compare...

... and their species richness in an area that has had little survey work in the past (Law et al. 2011). Our study aimed to document the insectivorous bat fauna of E. camuldelensis-dominated riparian vegetation within the semi-arid woodlands of the wheat-sheep belt of central-western NSW. Here, we report findings...

..., where most of the sheep occur, they occur in mixed farming with wheat and other crops. The area I am mainly talking about is the chenopod shrub- lands in the crescent, where deserts are likely to form or are already forming. Many of the sheep properties in this area are economically quite marginal...

.... The article noted that the Noisy Miner was very destructive to some kinds of crops (Anon 1878b). It was therefore proposed in the bill that the species be excluded from protection. Later, along with almost 40 other native and introduced species, the Noisy Miner was listed as an unprotected bird under...

... Australia. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 133. Department of Conservation & Natural Resources, Melbourne, Victoria. Robinson, D. and Traill, B. J., 1996. Conserving Woodland Birds in the Wheat and Sheep Belts of Southern Australia. Royal Australian...

... has preceded the planting of crops for human and livestock consumption. Human- made monocultures include grasses (wheat and sugar cane), forbs (e.g., canola and lucerne), shrubs (e.g., tea tree Melaleuca alternifolia and macadamia Macadamia integrifolia) and trees (e.g., Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus...

... followed. For example, 93% of the 14 million ha wheatbelt of southwestern Australia has been stripped of its native vegetation for the pro- duction of wheat and sheep. Over half of this area was cleared after 1945 (Saunders 1989a), and as late as the early 1970s the Government of Western Australia...

.... 2003. Natural vegetation of the New South Wales wheat-belt (Cobar-Nyngan-Gilgandra, Nymagee-Narromine-Dubbo 1:250 000 vegetation sheets). Cunninghamia 8: 253-84. Natural vegetation of the New South Wales wheat-belt (Cobar-Nyngan-Gilgandra, Nymagee-Narromine-Dubbo 1:250 000 vegetation sheets...

... and reduced longevity so much so that the World Health Organization has labelled meat a carcinogen. Modern meat production depends on intensive animal production and the feeding of crops to animals, commonly known as “factory farming” or, more formally, “Industrial Farm Animal Production” (IFAP...