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Conserving biodiversity in highly modified production landscapes

Ten key strategies

Conserving biodiversity in our forestry and agricultural landscapes is a massive challenge for managers, planners, producers and researchers. Our existing system of conservation reserves is not sufficient to protect biodiversity, and commodity producti

Biodiversity boosts woolgrowers' bottom line

Managing native vegetation as part of a whole farm system has the potential to boost the farm’s bottom line, as well as helping address one of Australia’s most serious environmental issues - the decline and loss of biodiversity. This was a key message to delegates at the VegFutures 2006 conference in Albury from the Australian wool industry’s most significant natural resource management research initiative, Land, Water & Wool. Land, Water (more)...