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B&B Highway
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Let's Split
One of the most awe-inspiring activities we do at PlantingSeeds is to split native bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Tc) hives every 18 months to two years. This is to provide hives of this extraordinary bee to schools on the B&B Highway – a way of paying it forward. We have been fortunate this year to have […]
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Countering the Urban Heat Island Effect: How plantings bring down the temperature
The recently published National Climate Risk Assessment delivers confronting predictions of Australia’s environmental future. The report highlights the far-reaching risks that climate change poses to Australia’s future, with specific attention on urban environments, the escalating threats from heatwaves, sea levels rising accompanied by coastal flooding, and increasing weather variability. These impacts are expected to place […]
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Climate Change Report: Pollinators in the Spotlight
Australia’s first climate risk assessment has emphasized the urgent need for action on climate change. The 2025 National Climate Risk Assessment review finds 1.5 million Australians are at risk from sea level rise by 2050. The National Climate Risk Assessment modelled impacts under three scenarios: 1.5C of warming, 2C of warming and 3C of warming. […]
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State of the Environment: Latest Report - Focus on the impacts of land clearing
EXPLAINER Biodiversity levels in New South Wales are declining rapidly, according to a report submitted to the State Parliament on the 26th of June 2025. The report indicates that land clearing is one of the major threats to our native landscape. The State of the Environment Report (‘SoE Report’), prepared by the New South Wales […]
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Benchmarking Biodiversity
With the Australian government and environmental experts promoting the idea of nature repair and regeneration becoming aspirational, biodiversity assessments become imperative. If we are to support native species and encourage healthier ecosystems, we need to determine trends, status, and distribution of fauna and flora to establish effective strategies to conserve and protect them. Biodiversity assessments […]
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How to turn your backyard (or balcony) into a bee haven
Australia is home to a dazzling array of pollinator species. These include not just the familiar European honey bee, but also thousands of native species of bees, butterflies, beetles, wasps, moths, flies, hoverflies, birds, and even bats that all play essential roles in plant reproduction and food production. But globally and locally, pollinators are under […]