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Just Ecology is not just a podcast, it's a symbiotic network connecting human communities, culture and ideas with the natural world.
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E24: The Myth of Fuel Reduction - with Associate Professor Phil Zylstra (opens the original)
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Many years ago, I began noticing some serious impacts on bushland following planned burns, or fuel-reduction burns. I was seeing the loss of old trees, destruction of rare and threatened plants, loss of habitat, and impacts on native fauna. But over time, something else became even more concerning. These burns were being carried out with the aim of reducing fuel loads, yet in many places I was seeing the opposite. Burning was stimulating dense recruitment of shrubs and other fire-responsive pion
E23: Restoring Diversity in a Changed Landscape — with Ian Higgins (opens the original)
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What does it take to restore diversity to a profoundly altered landscape? And how do we accept and work within novel ecosystems when there is no intact reference point to guide us? It was a real treat to sit down with one of the best restoration ecologists I know, Ian Higgins. On a cold winter’s day near Campbells Creek, Ian showed me what decades of patient, thoughtful restoration can achieve. When Ian first came to the area, there were just five individual wattles along Campbells Creek between
E22: Rewilding Childhood – with Nectar Connector (opens the original)
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I have always believed that the way we raise children, and the opportunities we give them to deeply experience and connect with the natural world, can be a powerful way to create a better future. So much of the destruction we see around us stems from a disconnection from nature that often begins in childhood. There is also a growing body of evidence showing that time spent in nature can improve children’s happiness, wellbeing, attention and emotional regulation, with particularly strong benefits
E21: The Ecological Knowledge of Beekeepers – with Stuart Fraser (opens the original)
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After more than 20 years working in ecology, I have come to realise that beekeepers, or apiarists, often possess a more detailed understanding of eucalypt flowering than anyone else. Their knowledge extends far beyond when particular trees flower, encompassing eucalypt ecology, geographic variation and the relationships between species, climate and soils. Few people embody this knowledge more remarkably than Stuart Fraser. Now in his eighties, Stuart is a lifelong beekeeper who has spent much of
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