Mersey River environmental flow
Science is showing that the Mersey River is returning to ecological health, helped by an environmental flow and community river works. Read how the community worked together to restore the environmental flow (PDF 403KB), and the man John Reed who started it all (PDF 360KB).
Revegetation
Revegetation of construction sites with sensitive use of endemic flora is restoring habitats. Read the story (PDF 228KB).
Hear Warwick Hadfield interview environmentalist Anita Wild: Wild_Rehabilitation.mp3 (1.13MB)
Lake Pedder Mayflies
Two eminent Tasmanian scientists, professors Nigel Forteath and Andrew Osborn, are showing Lake Pedder to be a haven for ancient and modern creatures. Read the story (PDF 816KB)
Hear the professors talk about the creatures they have found: Pedder_Creatures.mp3 (1.45MB)
For a scientific description of the mayfly, see the article (PDF 187Kb) by JC Dean, GNR Forteath and AW Osborn, Loamaggalangta pedderensis gen. & sp. nov.: A new mayfly from Tasmania (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae: Atalophlebiinae), Australian Journal of Entomology, Blackwell Synergy. This is an electronic version of an article published in Australian Journal of Entomology: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Australian Journal of Entymology, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/AEN.