Changes to Queensland’s Vegetation Management Act
Friday, 29 April 2016
Just last month on 17 March 2016, the Queensland government has put forward proposed changes to vegetation management laws in the sunshine state. The changes have been titled under the Vegetation Management (Reinstatement) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016, and propose to reinstate responsible vegetation management laws for Queensland (Department of Natural Resources and Mines,
- Published in Consulting
VIDEO: The Catchment Journey – Series 1 What is a catchment?
Friday, 22 April 2016
So what is a catchment? Is it something important and does it affect you and me? Adam from Natura Education explains the vital importance of our local catchments and how e can all help to keep them healthy into the future.
VIDEO: Aussie plants are coming out of the dark with a native plant app
Thursday, 24 March 2016
What if we could make use of our amazing Australian native plants for all types of gardening and landscaping? What if up and coming app technology was able to help us plan our gardens in such a way that we were contributing to conservation at the same time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_tqtq1tIcI Dr Mark Runkowski introduces an exciting
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Ghosts in the Sand
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
The following article was written for us by Ashwal M. Gowda who is a Masters student from Bond University on the Gold Coast. Ashwal has been working with the Natura Pacific team this year to gain work experience in the filed of environmental consulting. His article is a fascinating insight into the world of the
- Published in Education
Calling all ‘Earth-Friendly’ early childhood professionals!
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Can you believe we are into a new year? If you are anything like us you may still be recovering from the end-of-year and Christmas whirlwind! For those of you in childcare this may well have been a flurry of arranging enrolments for the new year, preschoolers moving on to big school, graduations, Christmas parties,
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What is Biodiversity anyway? And is it important?
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Biodiversity is a word that we seem to be hearing more and more these days, but what is it really? Maybe we can start by breaking it down… first, ‘bio‘ stems from a Greek word meaning ‘life‘, and ‘diversity‘ means a variety of different things. So, biological diversity or ‘biodiversity’ refers to the variety of
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Natura Education: Young Children in Nature – Why all the Hype?
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
The following article was submitted to Nature Play Qld earlier this year to contribute to their blog. The message was so relevant that we wanted to share it here too! These days it seems like we are regularly bombarded by messages, information and advice about our environment. As a parent or child care professional, this
- Published in Education, Nature Play
Natura Education: Environmental Heroes at Pottsville Beach Public School
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
The Natura education team, lead by our Senior Environmental Educator Lucy, had the great pleasure of spending two days (29th and 31st of July) with the students and staff of Pottsville Beach Public School on NSW’s far north coast. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Treescience, a local environmental consulting business, around 180 students from
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Natura Education and All Saints Anglican College – Working together for our Environment
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
The team at Natura Education are very lucky and proud to be involved in some great collaborative projects. One such project is the ongoing ‘Connecting Community for Waterways’ initiative. This project was undertaken as a service to the community which was focused on students and community collecting native seeds to provide as a resource to
- Published in Education, Nature Play
Environmental Scientists as Teachers
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Science is recognised as a pathway to innovation, and environmental science plays a significant role in meeting the new global challenges of our time. In Australia, environmental science is among the world’s best for quality, with our strengths lying in water science and technology, ecological modelling, and nature and landscape conservation[1]. The Australian Government has
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