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Protecting Adelaide's Urban Trees

Growing Adelaide’s tree canopy has been in the , andÌý have revealed that we are losing trees at an alarming rate, with potentially devastating consequences for the liveability of our city. To support a review of South Australia's tree protection laws, the South Australian Attorney General's Department, Planning and Land Use Services, commissioned the Environment Institute to investigate urban tree protection laws across Australia, and make recommendations as to how South Australia's laws could be strengthened to save more trees.

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Come and see us at the Royal Adelaide Show!

The current climate crisis makes us aware of the need to be resilient to ensure self-sustainment of the global economy and supply chain, particularly our food supply chain.

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SEMINAR: Assessing the Diverse Values of Nature - Professor Christopher Raymond

Recently, The ³ÉÈË´óƬ's Environment Institute,ÌýInstitute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources (ISER) and School of Social Sciences jointly hosted a seminar by Professor Christopher Raymond of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science: 'Conceptualising and Assessing the Diverse Values of Nature'.

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Regenerating Australia screening and Dynamic Statement release event

Last Wednesday evening the University's and Environment Institute partnered to host the screening ofÌý, as part of Sustainability Week 2022.

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Pints of Ideas: Youth Agency on Sustainability

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Downstream Traffic: wildlife conservation and sustainable development’ Reflections on the future of Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre from a Study Tour to Cambodia

The illegal wildlife trade is one of the largest drivers of biodiversity loss and species endangerment globally.

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Once the fish factories and ‘kidneys’ of colder seas, Australia’s decimated shellfish reefs are coming back

Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonisation, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early –Ìýand largely underwater –Ìýthe destruction of these reefs was all but forgotten.

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EVENT: Rewilding the oceans: combining marine biology & technology, public & policy

The Environment Institute is pleased to present an engaging panel discussion on rewilding our oceans for the ³ÉÈË´óƬ's EcoversityÌý2022 Sustainability Week.

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SEMINAR: Network Governance for Urban Infrastructure Resilience to Disasters

The ³ÉÈË´óƬ's Stretton Institute,ÌýÌý, the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources and the Environment Institute are delighted to jointly host international guest speaker

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Fishing for Data on Plastics

The problem of plastics in our oceans and their potential impact on people, plants, animals and entire ecosystems was front and centre at the recent .

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