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2021 calendar - hot off the press!
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  Each year we create a calendar highlighting nature on farms. For this year’s calendar we asked farmers in our project area to share a photo and story about
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Sustainable farm financing: discussion summary
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In an era of climatic uncertainty and increasing droughts, farm improvement projects that restore degraded land, enhance natural assets and improve drought
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Passing the baton in the ecology team
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This week our senior field ecologist, Dr Mason Crane (pictured above checking a nest box), leaves us to join the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust, marking
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Towards healthy farms, healthy farmers and healthy profits
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One small change on a farm could create new habitat for native animals and lead to increased stock productivity. That’s the message of a new publication
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Ten ways to improve the natural assets on a farm
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Sustainable Farms is delighted to launch our new booklet, Ten ways to improve the natural assets on a farm. The booklet highlights ten discrete projects that
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Farmers favourite tree challenge
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Is there a big tree on your property that’s special to you? If so, we’d love you to participate in our "farmer's favourite tree challenge 2021". Each year, we
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Fenced shelterbelt incorporating a paddock tree
Investing in healthy farms for the future
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Research by Professors Bruce Chapman and David Lindenmayer, Research Directors of Sustainable Farms at The Australian National University, has identified a new
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Sheep yards during drought
Now is the time to invest in natural assets for drought resilience
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On the south-west slopes where Sustainable Farms field staff undertake long-term ecological monitoring on farms, the effects of the dry are evident and it’s a
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Beautifully vegetated dam in NSW. Photo by Bindi Vanzella.
ANU Sustainable Farms funded to measure the benefits of improving farm dams
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ANU receives $5.93 million for first-ever study of big gains from farm dams.  In a watershed for Australia’s sustainable farming future, researchers from The
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David Lindenmayer
Sustainable farming in the face of climate change
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Professor David Lindenmayer has had a busy month (from interviewing Tim Flannery, traveling to Brazil for a conference, and working on papers analysing
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Winter Bird Surveys 2018
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Our team of field ecologists has been conducting regular wildlife surveys at the same sites in the woodland ecosystems west and northwest of Canberra for
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A photograph of a Southern Bell Frog
Another first for Sustainable Farms long-term monitoring
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The Greater Murray Biodiversity Monitoring Program  has been running for more than a decade, and it is always exciting when new native species are found.
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