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EVENT: "A Youth Symposium on Human-Nature Connection in the Anthropocene" - 20th November, 2023
The Environment Institute and Jane Goodall Institute AustraliaÌýare excited to be co-hosting this youth symposium.ÌýDon't miss this incredible opportunity to broaden your understanding of the human-nature connection in the Anthropocene.
Readying Australia’s Nature Repair Market for Nature Positive Investments
The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) recently published the '' report. The report was co-authored by Marsden Jacob, Prof John Rolfe and Environment Institute's Associate Prof
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UPCOMING EVENTS: Nature Festival 2023
Are you ready for Nature Festival 2023? 🌿
Climate change is reducing global river water quality
A review of almost 1000 studies on the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on rivers around the world has found an overall negative effect on water quality in rivers globally.
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Exposing Australia’s online trade in pest plants – we’ve found thousands of illegal advertisements
Do you buy plants online? You might be breaking the law without even knowing it.
PODCAST: Exotic plants and animals: the illegal wildlife trade happening right under your nose
There is increasing interest in owning wild and exotic animals and the internet is able to serve up whatever your heart desires, even if importing these animals is illegal.
Australia’s least wanted – 8 alien species and diseases we must keep out of our islandÌýhome
This week’s landmark report on the impact ofÌý revealed costs to the global economy exceeded US$423 billion (A$654 billion) a year in 2019. Costs have at leastÌý every decade since 1970 and that trend is set to continue.
The true damage of invasive alien species was just revealed in a landmark report. Here’s how we must act.
Invasive alien species are driving biodiversity loss and extinctions in every country, all over the world.
Invasive alien species a major threat to nature, people
A new international report, co-authored by from the ³ÉÈË´óƬ, has found that the number of alien species has been rising continuously for centuries in all regions, but are now increasing at unprecedented rates.
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