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World Bee Day: Finding Inspiration From Melbourne Home Gardens
An inspirational piece by PlantingSeeds’ Victorian expert, Tyler King, on how biodiversity, that directly benefits bees and pollinators, is being boosted in Melbourne’s suburbs’. This article originally appeared on the blog, The Anthropocene and More-Than-Human World Writing Workshop Series, under the title ‘Education, gardening and the prospect of multispecies flourishing’ One sunny Saturday morning, I’m driving through the quiet suburban streets of Melbourne on route to meet Joseph* to talk about their wildlife garden. The neighbourhood is typical of suburban Australia – neat, manicured lawns coupled with low-maintenance trees and shrubs such as yuccas or box hedges. Turning the corner…
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Earth Day 2022: Invest In Our Planet
Today is Earth Day, the 52nd annual one to be exact, to show global support for our planet. With a series of ongoing and increasingly concerning ecological issues caused by climate change and other factors, conservation and biodiversity is now paramount. It is expected that 1 billion people will participate in action of some kind on Earth Day in 2022, after an initial 20 million participants protested to raise awareness of environmental issues in 1970 was the seed for change. With this year’s theme ‘Invest in Our Planet’ we here at PlantingSeeds wanted to add some hope to the situation…
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Bathurst: On The B&B Highway
The latest B&B Highway initiative is showcasing how regional centres can support our ailing pollinators to help agriculture and biodiversity. The Bathurst B&B Highway – Bed & Breakfasts for Birds, Bees, Butterflies and other Biodiversity champions – links pollinating gardens and habitats at a number of Bathurst schools, contributing to regenerative corridors. Associated education sessions taught students and their families on the special connections between native endemic plants, pollinators and healthier agriculture and ecosystems. Bathurst is the first regional centre on board the B&B Highway which by year-end will feature over 100 B&Bs in NSW and Victoria with Queensland locations…
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The Latest IPCC Report And Biodiversity
Climate science and biodiversity are linked and the latest 2022 IPCC review of climate science spells out how we need to integrate policies to protect and restore nature. As stated by The Guardian, it is ‘potentially the last warning before the world is set irrevocably on a path to climate breakdown’. With our focus on biodiversity, we present the report’s comments on how ‘society can ensure conservation of biodiversity in climate policies’. Some takeaway points: For more information on the B&B Highway, our answer to supporting biodiversity, click here. For a further breakdown on the full IPCC report, click here.
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Listen Now: Dr Judy Friedlander On ABC Radio Melbourne Saturday Breakfast
Dr Judy Friedlander joined host Alice Zaslavsky from ABC Radio Melbourne Saturday Breakfast on March 12th as part of their breakfast program to chat the B&B Highway and all things citizen science. Take a listen below or here.
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Underwater Pollinators - No Longer Under The Radar
Avid readers of PlantingSeeds’ articles are familiar with pollinators and their roles in the ecosystem. From birds to bees, to bats, wasps and many others, our organisation works to shine the spotlight on pollinators’ important roles to support biodiversity. But it can be a little difficult to understand and be familiar with the As and the B’s of it all. As an example, what do you know about underwater pollinators? We are not talking about bees and birds that can swim or dive! And if you claim ignorance, you are not alone. Biologists only discovered indications of underwater pollinators in…