Archive for August 13th, 2006
Wilderness Society Should Acknowledge Woody Weed Problem: Doug Menzies
Posted by jennifer, August 13th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Rangelands
Comments: 23
Last week on Channel 9’s Sunday Program, Reece Turner from The Wilderness Society stated: “We haven’t seen any scientific evidence to show that biodiversity is being impacted negatively by these woody weeds.”
Sunday reporter Ross Coulthart then asked Turner, “Do you accept that there are woody weed areas causing major environmental damage?” Turner’s response [...]
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Counting Whales & Conservation Priorities
Posted by jennifer, August 13th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 30
Have you ever wondered how scientists count whales and how accurate their population estimates are?
The June issue of ‘Significance’ a journal focused on statistics has an article by Philip Hammond, a former Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Committee (IWC), explaining some of the techniques for estimating population numbers and it includes [...]

