Tag: Australia
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Submission to the Nature Repair Market Bill
My submission to the proposed Nature Repair Market can be found below.
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Land clearing on the rise as legal ‘thinning’ proves far from clear-cut
April Reside, The University of Queensland; Anita J Cosgrove, The University of Queensland; Jennifer Lesley Silcock, The University of Queensland; Leonie Seabrook, The University of Queensland, and Megan C Evans, The University of Queensland Land clearing is accelerating across eastern Australia, despite our new research providing a clear warning of its impacts on the Great…
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Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
Megan C Evans, The University of Queensland Land-clearing laws are being fiercely debated in both Queensland and New South Wales. These two states are responsible for the majority of cleared land in Australia’s recent history. The latest assessment from Queensland shows that 296,000 hectares of vegetation was cleared in 2014-15. More than a third of…
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Deforestation in Australia: drivers, trends and policy responses
Here is my presentation delivered at the Society for Conservation Biology – Oceania Conference this week in Brisbane, where I spoke within the symposium Conservation Oceania Style: Highlighting Oceania’s unique approaches to conservation biology and on ground outcomes The talk summarises my recent paper in a special issue of Pacific Conservation Biology. There’s also a short summary in…
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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…
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Future Earth Australia workshop #FutureEarthOz
Since February, I’ve been spending time at the Australian Academy of Science as an intern in their Science Policy team. As part of this role I recently had the privilege of attending the Future Earth Australia workshop. Below is a summary of the event – also posted as a Storify (with tweets and images): https://storify.com/megcevans/future-earth-australia-workshop Over 28-29th…
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My SHE XIX talk – now on SlideShare
I recently gave a talk at the XIX International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology, 8th February 2013 – held at the Fenner School, ANU. Here I outline my approach for evaluating the impact of a) legislation restricting vegetation removal, and b) biodiversity offset policies on achieving a ‘no net loss’ in vegetation across Australia, as…
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