Media Releases

2008

Shining a light on giving birth in rural and remote Australia (link to CSU News)

"Luckily we had a torch” is a comment made by a new mother and embraced by researchers from CSU to demonstrate the extraordinary circumstances in which some women living in rural and remote areas of Australia are forced to give birth.

Australia fails to deliver on international convention: CSU scientist (link to CSU News)

Australia has failed to deliver on its obligation under the international Ramsar Convention to protect its wetlands, according to a senior wetland ecologist and environmental scientist at ILWS.

Joining forces to study endangered parrot (link to release on CSU News)

Ecologists from ILWS have joined forces with Australia's largest almond producer Select Harvests Limited to the look for ways to better manage agricultural landscapes to maximise production and conservation outcomes. The focus for the project is the Regent Parrot, a native bird which is endangered in NSW and only found in small pockets of River Red Gum and Mallee woodlands in NSW, Victoria and South Australia.

Pact needed for the people of the Murray Darling Basin (link to CSU News)

New research suggests that social and economic conditions are so difficult in the Murray Darling Basin that researchers are calling for a treaty between government and the people and communities of the region. New findings on the severity of the drought and water shortages in the Murray Darling Basin have been released in a report by researchers at ILWS. Link to full report.

CSU environment, education research wins national funding (link to CSU News)

Research projects focussed on the environment and education have attracted funding in the latest round of projects announced in the federal Government's National Competitive Grants Program. The Australian Research Council (ARC) announced on Wednesday 15 October funding from 2009 for research projects that will produce significant national benefit.

Restoring endangered woodlands (link to release on CSU News)

Practical solutions to restore one of Australia's most threatened ecosystems – the endangered white box grassy woodlands of south eastern Australia – is the aim of researchers from CSIRO and Charles Sturt University's Institute for Land, Water and Society.

Better management to alleviate the effects of climate change (link to release on CSU News)

A leading Australian scientist, recognised internationally for his work in wetlands, says better management of the world's wetlands will help alleviate the effects of climate change.

Forestry still secure investment despite global instability (link to release on CSU News)

Forestry has proven itself over many decades as a reliable alternative asset for investors seeking to minimise risk and maximise returns, says the head of a leading Australian forestry and forest products company.

Forestry to play a major role in carbon emissions trading (link to release on CSU News)

Forestry is now part of the new economy in a world coping with carbon pollution, says a leading forestry researcher from Charles Sturt University (CSU). “It is no longer just an industrial producer of timber and pulp. There are big ambitions for this sector in Australia's 21st Century economy, as illustrated by what the Australian Government is proposing under its emissions trading scheme,” says Dr Digby Race, a senior research fellow with the University's Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS).

Echoes of the Past, Voices of the Future

In the mid-1860s many hardworking German farmers left South Australia to select cheap farming land in the fertile Southern Riverina region of NSW. Charles Sturt University archaeologist and cultural heritage manager, Associate Professor Dirk Spennemann, has captured this link to the region's past in his first public photographic exhibition ‘Echoes of the Past, Voices of the Future'.

Preserving Travelling Stock Reserves

A Charles Sturt University CSU academic has likened any plans to sell off Travelling Stock Reserves to “selling off NSW's Crown jewels in a garage sale”.

Climate change: a threat to food security

Climate change is seriously threatening the ability of regional Australia to produce food for export to countries facing food shortages. According to the director of Charles Sturt University 's Institute for Land, Water and Society Prof Max Finlayson world-wide food shortages are viewed by many to be verging on disastrous.

Latest Frog Research

Frog populations are declining world-wide, and while a great deal of attention has been paid to factors like disease, the loss of natural habitat remains the single greatest threat to amphibian populations.

Trees for Biofuels

An ambitious plan that would see just under seven per cent of Australia 's land mass be planted out to trees and shrubs to produce biofuels has been put forward by a leading Australian futures analyst and Institute adjunct research fellow Barney Foran.

Long distance runners

Wombats may well look slow and cumbersome but appearances can be deceiving. While we know they can move very quickly over short distances, it seems that they can also cover large distances, up to 4kms, at night. PhD student Alison Matthews from is currently monitoring the movements of wombats in Kosciuszko National Park at Perisher Valley as part of her research on the effects of climate change on the distribution and resource use of grazing mammals in the Australian Alps.

Albury Wetlands under Chinese Spotlight

As part of the Australia China Environment Development Program's wetland project, four Chinese officials will be in the Border region on Friday, March 14 for a study tour partially hosted by the Institute...

Bat conference

Bats are about to come under the spotlight at a major conference to be held in Albury straight after Easter. More than 100 bat enthusiasts including Australian and overseas bat ecologists studying micro and mega bat species and researchers with an interest in landscape ecology and Australian fauna are expected to attend the biennial 13 th Australasian Bat Society Conference...

Rural Australia Without Petroleum?

The Institute for Land, Water and Society and the E.H.Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation will hold a public forum on the implications of diminishing international supplies of petroleum and the possibilities for biofuels industries in rural Australia on Wednesday March 12 from 6 to 7.30pm at the Wagga Wagga City Council Meeting Room...

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