Environment

Victoria’s state government departments responsible for maximum speed limits on minor rural roads and safety and welfare of wildlife do not recognize vehicles travelling to fast to avoid collisions with wildlife on minor rural roads, are the cause of an increasing number of wildlife road kills and injuries.

The European Commission is about to settle on a new policy on methane which could have profound implications for ruminant livestock agriculture.

Road kills of native animals are avoidable on minor rural roads in the Macedon Ranges and adjacent shires. To achieve this traffic speeds on these roads must be legally limited to a maximum of 40 km/hr.

Ruminant livestock industries are under pressure to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and strategies exist to help do this.

There is a tendency to treat agriculture and forestry separately when addressing natural-resource concerns, but agroforestry offers a set of conservation and production technologies that can help to integrate forestry and agriculture efforts beyond carbon cycles, such as water quality and biological diversity.

Many people are unaware that poison 1080 is the most environmentally sensitive and target-specific poison available to protect Australia’s vulnerable wildlife and ecosystems from feral animals, because it occurs naturally in over 30 species of native plants.

By Patrick Francis Coinciding with the COP 21 Climate Change conference in Paris has been an increase in the number

Devastating at the time, the major floods of 2011 have since brought a vital benefit by recharging Australia’s depleted reserves

The results of over-reliance on glyphosate in genetically modified (GM) crops in the US has driven home the unavoidable truth

At the recent United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 2nd Scientific Conference in Germany  scientists from around the world

  The number of initiatives that protect and restore forests, wetlands, and other water-rich ecosystems has nearly doubled in just

By Patrick Francis One of the inconsistencies often found in the federal government’s policy development associated with agriculture, food processing