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Illegal wildlife dealer with poached birdwings, Irian Jaya

Poached birdwing butterflies Ornithoptera for sale by a black market dealer in Manokwari, Irian Jaya (Indonesian West New Guinea), caught in the Arfak Mountains. I75.8s

Bunch of captured migratory pratincoles on way to market, Java

Bunch of migratory birds, Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum after a night's netting in dry rice paddies by villagers in West Java, Indonesia. Netters catch large numbers in long home-made mist nets as birds migrate along the East Asian Flyway.I67.9s

Milling old-growth River Red Gum, Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales

Sawmilling of River Red Gum logs, Murrumbidgee River, Australia. The trees only grow on the river floodplains and old trees with hollows are important duck and waterbird nesting sites. Logging of these old trees is a conservation concern. S66.8s

Indonesian sawmill worker value-adds to tropical rainforest logging by producing sawn lumber close to logging areas in West Kalimantan, giving greater return to developing nation and local communities. But harvesting needs to be long term sustainable. I73.3

Cleared rainfoest for transmigration, Sumatra

Newly established transmigration settlement on former lowland tropical rainforest, Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia. Replacement of tropical forest with cash crops worldwide is reducing biodiversity, affecting climate, undermining indigenous economies. I69.8s

Rainforest stream, Yapen Island, Irian, site of logging concessions

Clear mountain stream flows through undisturbed equatorial rainforest on Yapen Island, Irian Jaya, Indonesian New Guinea. Yapen Island is one of the first parts of Irian Jaya to have logging concessions declared, threatening forests, streams, local people. I74.10s

Young orphaned Orang Utans Pongo pygmaeus at Camp Leakey rehabilitation centre, where captive orangs are reintroduced to the rainforest, Tanjung Puting N.P., Kalimantan. Endangered Orang-utans are dependent on large fruiting trees which are dispersed widely through lowland tropical rainforest in Borneo, North Sumatra. I43.17s

Woodchips being unloaded at Port of Gladstone central Qld, Australia. Plantation and native forestry in the hinterland supports small timber towns and sawmills, is multimillion dollar industry in SE Qld, but is not presently sustainable, addressed by Regional Forestry Agreements. CQ54.20s

Irianese clearing rainforest for slash & burn

Irianese (Papuan) villager clearing rainforest for swidden agriculture, using nutrients of rainforest biomass for crops, and regenerative ability of forest after nutrients are used. Modern clearing is more broadscale, permanent and unsustainable. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. I40.22s

Clearing equatorial rainforest, Kalimantan

Clearing tropical lowland rainforest in West Kalimantan (Borneo) Indonesia. Forest exploitation in developing nations gives resources for development but is unsustainable, inequitable, reduces biodiversity, affects climate, disrupts indigenous economies. I50.17s

Cleared equatorial rainforest, Kalimantan

Buttressed tree stump, characteristic of equatorial lowland rainforest, most diverse of ecosystems, remaining in cleared tropical lowland rainforest in West Kalimantan (Borneo) Indonesia. Once forests are logged for timber the land is used for transmigration settlement rather than regenerated for the future. I28.1s

Clearfelled native forest in preparation for tree plantation near Miriam Vale, Queensland, Australia. Carbon Credit Schemes in which industry can trade atmospheric pollution for tree plantings is causing large scale conversion of native vegetation and pastoral land to tree plantation, affecting biodiversity and rural economies. CQ39.3s

Wildlife carer feeds a lab mouse to a convalescing Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae. Volunteer wildlife care groups have been established in many communities to return injured and orphaned animals to the wild. CQ48.10s

Fringed Waterlilies Nymphoides geminata in a floodplain wetland, Palm Tree Ck, Dawson River valley, Central Qld, Australia. The floodplains and riparian forests of the Dawson R. upstream of Nathan Gorge, like other rivers threatened with dams, contain unique wetlands, rare plants and important wildlife habitat. CQ29.16s

Volunteer researchers monitoring seagrass

Seagrass Watch volunteers monitoring seagrass cover on an interdital flat (Baffle Creek, Queensland, Australia). Seagrass is vital habitat for fish and endangered dugongs, but is vulnerable to dieoff from pollution, sedimentation. CQ49.11s

Symbolic of the conservation movement and allied philosophies such as "deep ecology", a "tree-hugger" embraces an old growth forest giant (here a Melaleuca tree threatened by the construction of a space base on pristine Hummock Hill Island, Queensland, Australia). CQ38.10s

Nature Search volunteers at wildlife survey

Nature Search field day at a wetland, where volunteer wildlife observers train for wildlife surveys of key sites, to augment government efforts to record the biodiversity of natural landscapes. CQ40.2s

Canoeing on a wild river. These volunteers from The Wilderness Society are assessing this waterway (Baffle Creek) as part of a project to develop a draft Natural Rivers policy which government can use to rank and protect Australia's rivers. CQ46.10s

Woodchips spray from a sawmill chipping River Red Gum logs, Murrumbidgee River, Australia. The trees only grow on the river floodplains and old trees with hollows are important duck and other waterbird nesting sites. Logging of these old trees for woodchips is a conservation concern. S18.17s

Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos entangled in a fishing net. Water birds, cetaceans, turtles and other wildlife are often caught and drowned in fishing nets. S82.9s

Remnant natural vegetation in wheatfield

Remnant of native mallee vegetation surrounded by dryland cropping in the western district of Victoria, Australia. Most tracts of mallee have been cleared for marginal farming, leaving many mallee-dependent species at risk. S15.7

Unique boggomoss artesian wetland, Dawson R.

Water Primrose Ludwigia peploides montevidensis, carpets a boggomoss wetland on the floodplain of the Dawson River, Queensland, Australia. Boggomoss wetlands are unique artesian springs which support unique fauna, and flora occurring hundreds of kilometres outside their normal range. Giant Sedge Cyperus exaltatus, and Red Gum and Coolibah trees fringe the springs.6x4.5cm CQ13.8e

Clearing floodplain coolibahs for cotton

Clearing of native open eucalypt woodland (coolibah Eucalyptus coolabah (microtheca), Macintyre River floodplain, western Queensland, Australia, part of the fertile floodplain forests and woodlands being cleared for cotton production over large areas. SW98.21s

Floodwaters flow past riparian river red gums Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Dawson River, Queensland, Australia. Such riverine habitat provides a breeding ground for fish and a corridor for wetland and forest wildlife, but is drowned when dams are constructed across rivers (as proposed for this site). CQ61.4s

Snipe caught in Javanese mist net for food

Migrating Snipe Gallinago caught in a mist net in a rice paddy (sawah) by villagers in West Java, Indonesia. Netters catch large numbers of migratory birds in home-made mist nets as they cross Java on East Asian-Australian Flyway.W13.15s

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