Category: carbon farming

• Queensland moves to control land clearing: other states need to follow

  

  This article was originally published in The Conversation, and features my new paper published in Pacific Conservation Biology Queensland’s land clearing has yet again become a national issue. After laws were relaxed under the Liberal-National State government in 2013, land clearing rates tripled, undermining efforts to conserve wildlife and reduce carbon emissions. Now the current…

  Megan Evans

  May 10, 2016

  assisted natural regeneration, australia, Blog, carbon farming, climate, conservation, environmental policy, PhD, research

  Australia, deforestation, native vegetation, Queensland, regulation

• Farming carbon can be a win for wildlife, if the price is right

  

  Here’s our piece in The Conversation today: Megan Evans, Australian National University; Anna Renwick, The University of Queensland; Josie Carwardine, CSIRO, and Tara Martin, CSIRO Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are two of the greatest environmental issues of our time. Is it possible to address both of those problems at once? In Australia,…

  Megan Evans

  April 15, 2015

  assisted natural regeneration, australia, biodiversity, Blog, carbon farming, emissions reduction fund, regrowth