Western Australia is one of the most significant biodiversity hotspots in the world, but as the globe gets warmer, what’s being done to protect it?
Join Brad Bowden and Monica Main as they explore the existential threats to WAs natural environment and meet the green thumbs, problem solvers and cage rattlers working tirelessly to protect it for the next generation.
This is a podcast for and by young people; the people who face this challenge and hold the potential to make change.
This programme was made possible with support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation, find out more at CBF.org.au.
Artwork by Olive Coakley.
Theme by The Bures Band.
Western Australia is one of the most significant biodiversity hotspots in the world, but as the globe gets warmer, what’s being done to protect it?
Join Brad Bowden and Monica Main as they explore the existential threats to WAs natural environment and meet the green thumbs, problem solvers and cage rattlers working tirelessly to protect it for the next generation.
This is a podcast for and by young people; the people who face this challenge and hold the potential to make change.
This programme was made possible with support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation, find out more at CBF.org.au.
Artwork by Olive Coakley.
Theme by The Bures Band.
The invasive polyphagous shot-hole borer has been wrecking havoc across Western Australia’s landscape for the last several years, following its arrival from Southeast Asia.
This sesame seed-sized beetle has been tunnelling into the trunks of WA’s trees, devastating Perth’s already dwindling tree canopy.
Today, Monica Main speaks with forest pathologist and executive director at the Harry Butler Institute Treena Burgess and population biologist Ben Phillips about the fight to eradicate the shot-hole borer and the opportunity it presents to restore native landscapes.
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