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We're going on a beetle hunt
This is a story about what it's like to tackle an entirely new problem, so nothing is easy. Not even catching some beetles.
Let the hunt begin!
Disability advocate Marcus Dadd: ‘I hope I can inspire people to chase their dreams’
Fenner graduate and disability advocate Marcus Dadd has a passion for inclusive and sustainable practices in agriculture.
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Australia’s summer weather heats up
Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick gives us the run down of what is expected to be Australia's hottest hummer on record.
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Did you know that the Palm Cockato is one of the few birds in the world that uses a tool as musical instrument? Fenner's Professor Rob Heinsohn said the rare bird could be extinct within a decade unless urgent action is taken to protect its habitat.
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As one of the expert witnesses to the Royal Commission, Dr Marshall welcomed the way the Commission dealt with her evidence in the Indigenous engagement chapter, as well as the evidence provided to the Commission by senior Aboriginal witnesses from the Basin and other experts.
- Student profile
What makes a plant rare? Simply being hard to find, or even endangered? It was this question that Fenner PhD student Meena Sritharan is searching for an answer to.
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Led by scientists at the Australian National University in partnership with Australian and African based universities and R&D organizations, new research is changing the way small scale irrigation systems are run in nations like Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Tanzania.
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A new joint venture between the Nature Conservancy Australia (TNC) and Tiverton Agriculture to purchase land for conservation will protect almost the entire extent of the Great Cumbung Swamp from irrigated cropping.
- Education story
When you're surviving your Doctorate, being focused on a single discipline while surrounded by experts and students who come from different fields can be enriching, but also isolating. Here's how an economist and an ecologist discovered they could get through their PhDs together.
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Over one weekend in Spring, two academics at Fenner take on very different approaches to trees and conservation in Canberra.
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Professor Albert Van Dijk has been awarded the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute Educational Development Award
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WELA, one of the most exciting outcomes of recent research into gender disparity in the environmental sector, has captured the interest of ANU students Elyshia Weatherby, Alexandra Green, and Fenner School undergraduate Victoria Herbert.