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New CSIRO handbook to guide Australian businesses towards nature positive future. The Natural Capital Handbook delivers practical step-by-step guidelines on how to measure and incorporate natural assets such as clean air, water, soil and living things into operations. https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2023/September/New-CSIRO-handbook-to-guide-Australian-businesses-towards-nature-positive-future The book is available to download. # #LandManagement #FarmingAgriculture

At Arborgreen, we're proud to be a supporting partner of Landcare Australia. We are Australia’s largest provider of products and materials for tree establishment and care – you would have seen our iconic tree guards at many planting projects across the country. Together with Landcare Australia, we're launching a field-based tree guard trial in cooperation with Greening Australia, which begins in July. This study will test various tree guard combinations, gathering valuable data on factors like ease of installation, lifespan, weather impact, and their influence on seedling health. The insights gleaned from this study will guide recommendations ...

Rehydrating western pastoral land at Broken Hill with contoured dunes From above, contoured banks graded into the landscape look like the runes the ancient Norse people used to record their tales and sagas. In far western NSW, these banks, 50 centimetres high, graded across the landscape slope, are being constructed to slow the flow of water and encourage the rehydration of this ancient and, in some cases, drought-affected country. Broken Hill district grazier Dave Langford is turning to the grader to re-hydrate some of his property K-tank, which is still feeling some of the impact of the 2019-20 drought. Mr Langford runs South Australian-blood ...

Landcare groups and conservationists urging Victorian Government to reconsider operation in the Dandenong Ranges National Park Landcare groups are concerned over “unprecedented” plans to remove debris in two earmarked zones of the Dandenong Ranges National Park impacted by the June 2021 storm event. Contracted by Victorian Government agency the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA), VicForests is preparing to remove fallen debris from one larger spot near the Silvan Dam, and the other south near Fern Gully Track to use for commercial and community use. Forest Fire Management Chief Fire Officer Chris Hardman said VicForests will ...

Help protect your green spaces! Is your patch under threat, asks Bob Holderness-Roddam Most residents of greater Hobart are fortunate to have many parks and reserves within reasonable distance of their homes. These areas are vitally important for many reasons. They provide essential habitat for our native wildlife and plants: security from predators, food and nesting and roosting areas. They also provide ecosystem services – vegetation reduces run-off from heavy rainfall, serves as a windbreak and helps to mitigate the higher temperatures created by the ‘heat island’ effect of built-up areas. Allied to this are the benefits for both our physical and mental ...

How?... With critters! A LA Trobe University PhD Candidate indicates leaf litter transplants containing invertebrates could improve revegetation projects Invertebrates are overlooked in favour of small marsupials when it comes to rewilding studies, a researcher says Landcare facilitator Janet Hagen said she had seen a trend where farmers who started reintroducing habitat on cleared land decades ago had hit a stumbling block: Mature trees in revegetation projects were dropping seed, but young plants weren't appearing in their wake. "The farmers that planted those trees 20 years ago didn't expect to be re-planting them to keep the vegetation ...