Welcome to 2018

Between 2013-2016, Terrestrial Ecosystems posted a weekly blog, however, during 2017 we stopped the blog because we got too busy at work and thought it wasn’t being viewed. As it turns out lots of people read our blog and many people have asked why it stopped.

Some of the previous blog topics included:

• Is the EPA consistent in its assessments?
• Do we need a comprehensive public fauna survey database?
• Fauna relocation during vegetation clearing – is it really worth it?
• Northern Quoll – research priorities for the Pilbara
• Sniffing out trouble – conservation detector dogs saving threatened species
• Cat management – is there a silver bullet?

and others linked below.

In 2018 we will be back doing a fortnightly blog again. Some of the planned topics include:

• A killifish that breathes through its skin;
• Sample size for detecting the presence of Bilbies in a defined area based on the DBCA guidelines;
• Darting kangaroos – the imperfect science and implications of the new standard operating procedures; and
• many others on threatened species management, environmental regulation, offsets, feral and pest control and Australian flora and fauna.

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Images – top: Common scaly-foot (Pygopus lepidopodus), bottom: Pilbara landscape