Lauren Fuge visits the Flinders Ranges with the Adnyamathanha owner-operator of an Indigenous cultural tourism centre. She asks: how did his people change the land, and how has it changed them?
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Carbon credits must be scrutinised – and none more so than credits for taking grazing animals off arid rangelands.
Having special foot adaptations helped these sizeable animals wander long distances, which meant a better chance to find plentiful food and water.
80,000 years ago, Australia’s landscape was dominated by much larger versions of today’s marsupials – including enigmatic and enormous wombats.
Studies of the fossil teeth of the three-tonne Diprotodon have revealed the now-extinct beast was Australia’s only known seasonally migrating marsupial.
What killed off Australia’s giant wombats and other megafauna? New dating once again points the finger at human hunters, rather than abrupt changes to the climate.
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Lecturer in Palaeontology, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Biogeography, Node & Stream Leader for ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, University of Technology Sydney; Australian Museum
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Biology, University of Salford
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University
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PhD Candidate, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
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Adjunct Senior Researcher at Griffith University and La Trobe University, and Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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Adjunct Professor - Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Professor, Flinders University
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Professor, Palaeontology, Griffith University
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Professor of Dryland Ecology, UNSW
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Professor, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University