Western Australia's Native Flora Protection Act
The state of Western Australian makes its first serious attempt to protect its indigenous flora.
The state of Western Australian makes its first serious attempt to protect its indigenous flora.
In this paper, Caillavet identifies a range of archival sources which provide evidence of the nature, functions, and ecology of agricultural techniques in the northern Ecuadorian highlands.
Between 1915 and 1961 a state-run trawling industry operated on the South-east Australian shelf targeting tiger flathead (Neoplatycephalus richardsoni) as its principal species…
Recent scholarship has investigated the rate of deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia since European settlement and the severity of human impacts on that ecosystem. Yet in previous environmental histories of the Great Barrier Reef, the impacts of coral collecting have not been adequately documented.
This paper examines the interrelations of technology, environment and people by exploring the origin, design and implementation of a dam-building project intended to control water-level fluctuations and enhance the Nett Lake wild rice ecosystem at Bois Forte Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.
In this study, the history of traditional non-timber forest uses is reconstructed by combining the analysis of forest management plans and the results from oral history interviews.
This paper examines the history of hard rock mining on the large lakes of north-west Canada (Athabasca, Great Slave and Great Bear) from 1921 to 1960.
Daley and Griggs present documentary and oral history evidence to show that the extent and severity of mining in the Great Barrier Reef has been hitherto neglected in environmental histories of the ecosystem.