The continent of Australia is teeming with diverse life, both in flora and fauna. It boasts some of the most unique and spectacular plant species, important to the native ecology. Australian plants ...

Australia’s fire preparedness just got smarter, more colourful and easier to access.

CD-ROM entitled: Australia's native vegetation MVG 2007. From the label: "This disk of GIS data and Major Vegetation Group Facts Sheets has been prepared to accompany the booklet Australia's native ...

Australia has the largest intact savannas on Earth. Savannas are an ever-changing mosaic of ecosystems—from the sparse ...

New research has uncovered the history of when and why the native vegetation that today dominates much of Australia first expanded across the continent. "C 4 plants evolved to be able to ...

The rapid climate change that’s occurring in Australia’s alpine regions is having a devastating impact on native vegetation, a UNSW study has found. Native plants in Australia’s alpine regions may not ...

Woody meadows can create green corridors in urban landscapes at much less cost than traditional methods. Now keen gardeners ...

A decision by one of Australia’s biggest beef producers to end broadscale clearing of remnant native vegetation on the company’s 18 cattle properties sets a new benchmark for sustainable land ...

1. A fire history (1980 to the present) developed for Kakadu National Park, derived mostly from manual interpretation of LANDSAT MultiSpectral Scanner (MSS) imagery, was used as the temporal basis for ...