Ian Lunt – The Conversation

We have to get smarter about the way we manage Australia’s national parks. Nic Prins

May 23, 2013

Our national parks must be more than playgrounds or paddocks

Euan Ritchie, Deakin University; Bill Laurance, James Cook University; Corey J. A. Bradshaw, University of Adelaide; David M Watson, Charles Sturt University; Emma Johnston, UNSW ; Hugh Possingham, The University of Queensland; Ian Lunt, Charles Sturt University, and Michael McCarthy, The University of Melbourne

It’s make or break time for Australia’s national parks. National parks on land and in the ocean are dying a death of a thousand cuts, in the form of bullets, hooks, hotels, logging concessions and grazing…

There are sound ecological reasons for introducing grazing animals to some wild areas, but this shouldn’t act as a cover for non-scientific grazing. Richard Lehnert

November 19, 2012

Can livestock grazing benefit biodiversity?

Ian Lunt, Charles Sturt University

Grazing by livestock (mainly sheep and cattle) has irreversibly degraded many natural ecosystems in Australia. Consequently, stock are usually removed from public land when new conservation reserves are…

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