Environment

In the fifth article in the series ‘Wildlife road kills versus Vision Zero 2050’ Patrick Francis explores existing initiatives which provide transport departments with an avenue for including wildlife in road crash risk assessment.

In the fourth article in his wildife road kills series Patrick Francis questions why Safe System principles ignore rural road pedestrians safety as well as wildlife vehicle collisions.

The Nature Repair Market is likely to become available to farmers across Australia in 2025 but its operator the Clean Energy Regulator needs to ensure its unintended consequences are recognised and managed.

By Damian Lettoof, Chris J Jolly, Timothy N.W. Jackson; For people in southeast Australia, springtime means soaking up the sun

Despite the red meat industry having a carbon neutral 2030 policy a study into meat processor attitudes found the sector does not see value in product-level greenhouse gas emissions credentialling for consumers.

New App helps identify existing and potential new bird species on your farm.

The Australian sheep meat industry has already achieved a status of green house gas stabilisation.

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

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