From space, Australia's smoke plumes can look like aggressive rivers, flowing relentlessly from the nation's southeastern forests and bushlands.
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Our foreign correspondent has covered Zimbabwe since its inception, back when he sent his reports from remote bushlands by carrier pigeon.
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A conservation group, Help Save the Wildlife and Bushlands in Campbelltown, told CNN about 3,000 flying foxes died this past weekend alone.
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During a cease-fire that preceded the festivities in Rufaro stadium, I had sent my reports from remote bushlands by carrier pigeon.
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Accessed 26 September 2019. The ecoregion is surrounded by Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets – the Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets to the south and west, and the Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets to the north and east."Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands". WWF ecoregion profile. Accessed 26 September 2019.
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Most of the region is in the Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets ecoregion, with extensive grasslands punctuated by woodlands of Acacia and Commiphora trees."Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets". World Wildlife Fund ecoregion profile. Accessed 8 September 2019.
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To the east and northeast they transition into the drier Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets and Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands. East Sudanian savanna lies the northwest. In Kenya's mountains, the Acacia-Commiphora bushlands transition to humid East African montane forests at higher elevations.
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Island Press, Washington DC. The ecoregion is bounded on the east by the Indian Ocean. It transitions to drier open woodlands and shrublands to the north and west: the Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets in the north, the Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets and Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets west of the central portion, and the Eastern miombo woodlands to the southwest. To the south, it borders the Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic across the Lukuledi River.
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The KCWMA is in the Northern Acacia- Commiphora bushlands and thickets ecosystem, part of the Kidepo Valley National Park critical landscape.
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It can most commonly be found on the edges of bushlands, woodlands, grasslands, and forests near ponds, marshes, streams and lakes.
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The Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets are a tropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion in eastern Africa. The ecoregion is mostly located in Kenya, extending north into southeastern South Sudan, northeastern Uganda, and southwestern Ethiopia, and south into Tanzania along the Kenya-Tanzania border."Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets". World Wildlife Fund ecoregion profile.
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B. melanocephalum inhabits a range of vegetation types such as grasslands, bushlands, thickets, trees, and roadside verges. It can also live in well- vegetated urban gardens.
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Melhania latibracteolata is native to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. It is known from fewer than 10 sites. Its habitat is in Acacia-Commiphora bushlands at altitudes of about .
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City of Stirling (2004). Green Plan 2: a strategy for conservation of urban bushlands. Explanation of the role of Green Plan 2 at City of Stirling (2004). Strategic Plans .
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The Réunion stonechat (Saxicola tectes) is a species of stonechat, endemic to the island of Réunion. This small passerine bird is common in clearings and open mountain bushlands there.
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Black rhinos live in several habitats including bushlands, Riverine woodland, marshes, and their least favorable, grasslands. Habitat preferences are shown in two ways, the amount of sign found in the different habitats, and the habitat content of home ranges and core areas. Habitat types are also identified based on the composition of dominant plant types in each area. Different subspecies live in different habitats including Vachellia and Senegalia savanna, Euclea bushlands, Albany thickets, and even desert.
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Many local residents who chose, in the 1930s and 1940s, to establish their residences next to these bushland, have been fighting for more than 50 years to protect these bushlands from development.
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Birdwatching can be done particularly in the bushlands of the eastern slopes op Imba Dogu’a. in the tabia and mapped. The main Dogu'a Tembien page holds more details on the bird species.
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The ecoregion is mostly made up of grasslands, savannas, and open-canopy woodlands. Species of Acacia and Commiphora are the principal trees."Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets". World Wildlife Fund ecoregion profile.
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Drier Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets occupy the Eyasi and Manyara lowlands. Tanzania's B141 highway crosses the highlands, running through Mbulu on its way from Madukani east of the highlands to Singida in the southwest.
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The Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets is a semi-arid tropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion in the Horn of Africa. It is home to diverse communities of plants and animals, including several endemic species.
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The Ogaden is part of the Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets ecoregion. It has been a historic habitat for the endangered African wild dog, Lycaon pictus;C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Painted Hunting Dog: Lycaon pictus, GlobalTwitcher.
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The shrub is erect and broomlike and grows from 0.3 to 1.0 m tall. Its branches are slender. It is often found in forest margins, open bushlands, and in on rocks at altitudes of 100–200 m.
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In 2005 the B4C won the prestigious Thiess National Riverprize. Recent successes in protecting the environment by the B4C include securing the Weekes Road, Carindale Bushlands and Oates Hill Reserve from the Queensland Government, saving the Wishart Bushlands from development, saving the Bulimba Creek Oxbow and negotiating a major rehabilitation project to restore this saline wetland. The B4C has its own foundation "the Bulimba Creek Environment Fund", which provides small grants to members of the community to get involved in environmental issues, education and training. B4C has its own catchment centre and community nursery.
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It lives between elevations of in semiarid bushlands and plains with an annual rainfall of . One study predicted that its habitat range will increase throughout 2100 due to climate change. It is most active during the rainy season.
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It avoids suburban areas, pineapple plantations, bushlands and oil-palm plantations.Angelici, F.M. and Luiselli, L. (2005). Habitat associations and dietary relationships between two genets, Genetta maculata and Genetta cristata. Revue d'Écologie (La Terre et la Vie) 60: 341–354.
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The Mimbara group however held out in the northern bushlands until 1905, as the last "wild" group of Aboriginal peoples of South Australia. These were relocated south to the outskirts of Quorn, and at Riverton, and on Willochra Creek.
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Impatiens niamniamensis comes from tropical Africa. It can be found from Cameroon throughout tropical Africa, up to Sudan and down to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It grows in moist and shaded bushlands, at an elevation of above sea level.
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Natural habitats of Pristimantis kareliae are sub-páramo bushlands and páramo grasslands at elevations of above sea level. It is reasonably common, although its range is small. No significant threats have been identified. It occurs in the Sierra Nevada National Park.
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The ecoregion occupies the middle and upper reaches of Kenya's Tana River watershed, and the closed basins in the Kenyan portion of the East African Rift including those of lakes Magadi, Naivasha, Nakuru, Baringo, and the uplands south and west of Turkana. Kenya's capital Nairobi is in the ecoregion. The Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets are bounded on the southeast by the humid coastal Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic along the lower Tana River and the Indian Ocean coast. To the south and southeast, they transition to the more humid Southern Acacia- Commiphora bushlands and thickets.
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The natural range of the eastern rosella is eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The species is found in lightly wooded country, open forests, woodlands, gardens, bushlands and parks. Juvenile P. e. diemenensis The eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius) has become naturalised in New Zealand.
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Sightings of exotic big cats in Australia began more than 100 years ago. The New South Wales State Government reported in 2003 that "more likely than not" there was a number of exotic big cats living deep in the bushlands near Sydney.
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Drier Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets lie to the north and west. The mountains support enclaves of forest, mostly between 1000 and 1550 meters elevation. The forests vary in species composition with elevation and the direction of the slope.N. D. Burgess et al. (2007).
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Aloe globuligemma is found in Botswana, Zimbabwe and in the South African provinces Limpopo and Mpumalanga in hot dry areas and bushlands at elevations from , often in large colonies, in bare or sparsely grassed places, often in eroded areas and in open deciduous woodland.
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The Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets ecoregion occupies most of the Horn of Africa east and south of the Ethiopian Highlands, including eastern Ethiopia's Ogaden plateau and adjacent parts of Somalia and northeastern Kenya. It also extends along the floor of the East African Rift, bisecting the Ethiopian highlands, and along the northeastern edge of the highlands into Eritrea and Sudan. The ecoregion is bounded on the southwest by the Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets and the Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands. To the south, it is bounded by the humid Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic in the lower Shebelle- Jubba River valley.
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Most of the Awash Basin is part of the Ethiopian montane forests ecoregion. At high altitudes the Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands and Ethiopian montane moorlands predominate. The Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets ecoregion occupies low elevations in the Rift. The basin's vegetation has a strong anthropogenic impact.
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The plant communities include woodlands, shrublands, grasslands, and thickets. The predominant trees are deciduous species of Acacia and Commiphora, with a low herbaceous understory. Dactyloctenium aegyptium and Panicum turgidum are the principal grass species. Where rainfall is lower, the Acacia-Commiphora woodlands yield to low bushlands and grasslands.
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They are found in coastal bushlands as well as inland saline sites, sand plains, stony places and desert wadis between sea level and 400 meters in altitude. It also occurs in dry riverbeds and other saline locations in southern Africa in association with Tamarix usneoides and the grass Odyssea paucinervis.
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Zebra in dense brush The Grévy's zebra largely inhabits northern Kenya, with some isolated populations in Ethiopia. It was extirpated from Somalia and Djibouti and its status in South Sudan is uncertain. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is endangered. It lives in Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and barren plains.
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In the 1920s and the 1930s it was proposed that the Mullum Mullum Valley should become protected bush parkland, but the remnant bushlands were not threatened by development, the scenery was not spectacular and society at the time had other priorities. After World War II, more people made excursions and day trips to Mitcham, and to Loughnan's Hill and Louhnan's Lake in Ringwood North to enjoy the views and the wonderful bushlands. By 1946, local town planning schemes again proposed protection of this bushland as parkland, but local planning schemes were being brought together under the MMBW Metropolitan Planning Scheme. In 1954, this scheme first proposed a series of "parkway" roads along our creek valleys, which were made obsolete in the 1969 Melbourne transport plan.
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It was named for the author who lived parat of his life locally. The park has been there since at least 2007. Barak Bushlands are at the location previously known as Falkiner Street Reserve, located to the west of Wingrove Park along the Diamond Creek. They were named for Indigenous leader William Barak by Nillumbik Shire Council in 2004.
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The southern red-billed hornbill (Tockus rufirostris) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae, which is native to the savannas and dryer bushlands of southern Africa. It is replaced by a near-relative, the Damara red-billed hornbill, in the arid woodlands of western Namibia. All five red-billed hornbills were formerly considered conspecific.
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The journal of the club described its aims—in 1955—as follows: "The Caloola Club is an Expedition Society founded to inculcate a love of natural wildernesses, to encourage an appreciation of Conservation and Nature Protection and to widen the knowledge of the Australian Scene. We seek enjoyment in landscape and natural bushlands and are interested in the history, natural history and geography of our country. All our activities are a means of arousing interest in conservational matters … camping, bushwalking, nature excursion, canoeing, photography, cycling, touring by motor, discussion and lecture … all are aimed at bringing us closer to the bushlands, the rural countryside and Man’s use of the National Heritage." Members of the club canoed 400 miles of the Murray River from Towong to Corowa in January 1950.
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The hoary fox is native to south-central Brazil, although some sightings have been recorded from the north of the country, and Pleistocene fossils are known from Argentina. Although they may be found in more marginal habitats, they usually live in the cerrado, between elevation, where open woodlands, bushlands, and savannahs that are smooth or scattered with trees occur. No subspecies are recognized.
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The ecoregion is home to globally outstanding populations of large mammals, including great herds of wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), plains zebra (Equus burchelli), and Thomson's gazelles (Gazella thomsoni). Large predators include lions (Panthera leo), leopards (Panthera pardus), spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus), and African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus)."Southern Acacia- Commiphora bushlands and thickets." World Wildlife Fund ecoregion profile.
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Ceremony (1895) is housed at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. In 2003 the National Gallery of Victoria held an exhibition Remembering Barak to commemorate his life and work. An education resource was developed to accompany the exhibition. In 2004 Nillumbik Shire Council registered the place name Barak Bushlands, previously known as the Falkiner Street Reserve, along the Diamond Creek in Eltham.
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Little is known about the ecology and behaviour of Heuglin's gazelles; they typically remain solitary or form groups of two to four. Herbivores, these gazelles possibly browse as well as graze. Gestation lasts nearly six months, after which probably a single calf is born. Heuglin's gazelles inhabit open areas such as steppes, dry grasslands and thorn bushlands up to an elevation of .
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In 1913, Lot 1 Section of the McIntosh estate was purchased by Mrs Mary Donaldson, wife of merchant William Donaldson, who ran the City Free Stores in Kent Street, Sydney (along with three other properties located opposite, between the present Bushlands Avenue and St. John's Church). The land was one rood, 32 perches in area, and accessible to the railway station.
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It is bounded on the south by the Kenyan border, on the east by Borana Controlled Hunting Area, and on the west by the Murle (or Murulle) Controlled Hunting Area."Chelbi Wildlife Reserve". Protected Planet. Accessed 23 September 2019. The reserve is in the Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets ecoregion, and protects a population of Grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi).
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Elisabeth Cummings was born on 3 June 1934 in Brisbane, Queensland. During the Second World War Cumming’s family evacuated Brisbane and lived in the country before returning to live in Alderley. The family home in Alderley was surrounded by bushlands. The Cummings family owned a holiday home at Currumbin on the Gold Coast where Cummings, as a child, would paint watercolour landscapes.
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Newmark, W. D., 2002, Conserving Biodiversity in East African Forests, a Study of the Eastern Arc Mountains. Ecological Studies 155. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 197 The Rubeho Mountains are covered with miombo woodland, montane rainforest, dry montane forest, montane grassland, and Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets. Forests extend from 520 to 2050 meters elevation, and vary in composition and species type with elevation and rainfall.
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Eastern Arc Mountains Conservation and Education Fund (EAMCEF). Accessed 12 September 2019. On the western slopes of the main plateau, Macaranga kilimandscharica is the predominant tree, forming a 10-15-meter canopy in dry montane forests in valleys at 1,600–1,700 meters elevation. The drier western and northwestern slopes have Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets at lower elevations, and dry montane forests at higher elevations.
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The Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets consist of two continuous blocks. The southern block lies west of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania, in the drier rain shadow of the mountains. It extends northeast-southwest, from the southern slope of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Usangu Plain at the edge of the Southern Highlands. Tarangire and Ruaha national parks are in the southern block.
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Protected areas in the ecoregion include portions of Kenya's South Turkana and Samburu national reserves, Maralal National Sanctuary, and Amboseli, Chyulu Hills, Kora, Longonot, Marsabit, Meru, Nairobi, Ol Donyo Sabuk, Tsavo East, and Tsavo West national parks. Tanzania's Umba and Mkomazi Game Reserves are in the ecoregion, as are Uganda's Matheniko and Pian Upe wildlife reserves."Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets". World Wildlife Fund ecoregion profile.
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To the north, the forest-savanna mosaic transitions to the drier East Sudanian savanna. On the southwest, it transitions to the Central Zambezian miombo woodlands. The ecoregion's smaller northern outlier lies on the border of Ethiopia and South Sudan. It is bounded on the east by the Ethiopian Highlands, on the west by the East Sudanian savanna, and on the south by the Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets.
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In areas where it has become naturalised, Acacia decurrens is generally found on roadsides, along creeklines and in waste areas. It also grows in disturbed sites nearby bushlands and open woodlands. It was extensively planted in New South Wales, and it is difficult to tell whether it is native or naturalised in areas near its native range. The species became naturalised in other states including Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania.
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Barbeya is the only genus in the family Barbeyaceae, and has only one species, Barbeya oleoides. It is a small tree native to the mountains of Somalia, Ethiopia, and the Arabian Peninsula. It can be found locally abundant in the transition zone between the dry, evergreen, Afromontane forests and lower- elevation evergreen bushlands. The family Barbeyaceae is closely related to its ecological associate on the Horn, the family Dirachmaceae.
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Baldivis Secondary College Administration and Arts block. The school comprises/contains 7 blocks, or buildings, including the administration, the library, food, science, cafe (canteen), sports hall, performing arts center, the arts block and materials technology blocks. The buildings and sites were designed by award-winning architects to achieve high standards and when the landscape was complete in building and is matured, it will be reminiscent to the original bushlands of the area.
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A dik-dik is the name for any of four species of small antelope in the genus Madoqua that live in the bushlands of eastern and southern Africa. Dik-diks stand about at the shoulder, are long, weigh and can live for up to 10 years. Dik-diks are named for the alarm calls of the females. In addition to the females' alarm call, both the male and female make a shrill, whistling sound.
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The Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee is associated with the Landcare Group and is run by volunteers. Formed in 1997 and incorporated in 1999, it supports smaller groups and individuals involved in Bushcare, Catchment Care, Nature conservation and environmental education and awareness. Known as the B4C, the group is involved in protecting and rehabilitating waterways, corridors, remnant bushlands and wetlands. It was the first urban Queensland group to win a State Landcare award in 2000.
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The second walk of is signposted to explain the changing vegetations of swamp she-oak (Casuarina sp.) forest and mixed woodland, to the edge of mangrove tidal mudflats. The area is well populated with large arboreal termite mounds, reflecting the waterlogged soils. A bushlands refuge also exists upstream of Eprapah, on a southern tributary of Eprapah Creek, on Elysian Street, Victoria Point. Further upstream is the Sandy Creek Conservation Area beside Double Jump Road, Mount Cotton.
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The bushlands near Mount Petrie are an important habitat for koala, wallaby, and echidna colonies. A few kilometres east of Mount Petrie is the Leslie Harrison Dam. This places the large hill in the catchment area for Redland City, another reason that development has been curtailed in this part of the city. The construction of permanent facilities for the Western Corridor Recycled Water Project in 2008 had a significant impact on the bushland on the mountain.
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Annie's love of Australia's bushland and history is evident in her childhood memories of Rooty Hill. Pony rides to lovely old homes such as Bungaribee, Mamre, Horsley and Graystanes featured largely in her childhood memories of wildflowers and bushlands now gone.Ivor Wyatt, Ours in Trust: a personal history of The National Trust of Australia (NSW), Willow Bend Press, Sydney, 1987, pp. 2, 8 Annie's maternal grandfather Archibald Forsyth (1826–1908) had arrived in Australia in 1848 from Scotland.
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During the 1990s Drexler's narrative work dealt with a number of themes including feminism, the depiction of women in art and colonialism. In 1999, she spent a sabbatical in Australia where she developed the idea for “Gauguin’s Zombie”. Notable early exhibitions include the solo exhibitions “Postcards from Oahu” at the Sarratt Gallery Vanderbilt University (1997) “Bushlands” at Northern Territory University in Darwin Australia. (1998), “High Art and Low Life” at Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri-St.
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The dam will occupy the wide valley bottom at the river confluences, which is currently occupied by farmlands and bushlands. The reservoir will extend into the lower Genfel and Suluh gorges, in a place called Shugu’a Shugu’i. No people are permanently living in the area that will be flooded. Current dryland villages Ch’in Feres (in Inderta), Addi Atereman and Worgesha (in Dogu’a Tembien) will become lakeshore villages, and Genfel church in the homonymous gorge will be on the edge of Lake Giba.
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Further south, Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets occupy the Tarangire River valley, the basin of Lake Sulunga, and the lowlands south and west of Lake Eyasi. Miombo woodlands occupy the southern and eastern watershed of the Wembere River and the Mbulu Highlands, which divide the Lake Eyasi basin from the Lake Manyara, Tarangire, and Lake Sulunga lowlands. Enclaves of East African montane forest occur at higher elevations in the Mbulu Highlands and Mount Hanang. Around Itigi are Itigi-Sumbu thickets.
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To survive, children may have needed nursing during such periods until reaching perhaps 4 to 5 years of age. The species appears to have been patrifocal, with females more likely to leave the group than males. A. africanus lived in a gallery forest surrounded by more open grasslands or bushlands. South African australopithecine remains probably accumulated in caves due to predation by large carnivores (namely big cats), and Taung child appears to have been killed by a bird of prey.
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On the ridges east of the Leine, besides the mesophilic beech and ravine woods, there are xeric grasslands, dry bushlands, mesophilic grasslands and dry chalk hillside forests that are particularly worthy of conservation. Near Gronau the Leine finally leaves the Leine Uplands and, simultaneously, the Central Uplands and enters funnel-shaped basin of the Calenberg Loess Börde which opens out into the North German Plain and which abuts on the Calenberg Uplands in the west and the Innerste Uplands and Hildesheim Forest in the east.
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Ladakh toad (B. latastii), a species from the Himalayan highlands Depending on exact species and region, Bufotes can be found in steppes, grasslands, scrublands, bushlands, sand dunes, deserts, meadows, marshes, gravel pits and forests (however, mostly quite open forests or in openings). In addition to natural habitats, many species will inhabit human modified habitats like cultivated and urban areas, also when quite polluted. Some species may even occur in higher densities in human modified habitats like city parks and gardens than in nearby natural habitats.
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The creek and valley is hypothesised to have been used by Indigenous Australians as a route from modern day Melbourne to Warrandyte. Early European settlement occupied well watered open grassy woodlands on either side of the ridge lines, along the main roads and railway lines, and the more open valleys. Orchards were established on the higher plateaus of Ringwood, Croydon, Park Orchards, and Templestowe. The natural significance of the valley was recognised early by Naturalists who made excursions to Mitcham to see the remarkable bushlands and rich wildflower displays.
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The architectural style is typically single storey, brick veneer, with large allotments affording both front and rear gardens, as well as off-street parking for several vehicles. Croydon Hills has many parks, with walking tracks and native bushlands, such as Settlers Orchard, Yarrunga Reserve, Candlebark Walk and Narr-Maen Reserve. Native birds such as the kookaburra, magpie, galah, sulphur crested cockatoo, magpie-lark, purple swamphen, Eurasian coot, Pacific black duck and Australian wood duck are a common sight in both the parklands and backyard gardens. The common brushtail possum inhabits the area.
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At the time the Portuguese real was not the only currency in circulation, and many of the currencies circulating were counterfeit. Spanish coins, for example, circulated since the governorship of Rui de Câmara, expanded during the short reign of King Sebastian and, ultimately, expanded through returning emigres who worked in the colony of Brazil in the 17th century. He ordered this currency collected and sent to Lisbon. Agricultural reforms included ordering vacant municipal lands be rented out, clearing of bushlands and reduction of goats, due to their impacts on terrains.
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The distribution of Banksia largely coincides with areas of high population density, and large tracts of Banksia woodland are cleared for urban expansion every year. In this photo, land clearing for housing threatens the Banksia menziesii species in Canning Vale, Western Australia. Land clearing in Australia describes the removal of native vegetation and deforestation in Australia. Land clearing involves the removal of native vegetation and habitats, including the bulldozing of native bushlands, forests, savannah, woodlands and native grasslands and the draining of natural wetlands for replacement with agriculture, urban and other land uses.
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The range is east of the Nile River and patchy, bounded by the southern Red Sea Hills in Sudan and mountainous terrain in northwestern Ethiopia and western Eritrea. Heuglin's gazelles inhabit open areas such as steppes, dry grasslands and thorn bushlands up to an elevation of . Little is known about the populations and their status. Numbers have plummeted in Eritrea; in 2019 the Forestry and Wild Life Authority of Eritrea declared that Heuglin's gazelle had been sighted again in the country in the Dige sub-zone (Gash-Barka Region).
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In general, Paranthropus are thought to have been generalist feeders, with the heavily built skull becoming important when chewing less desirable, lower quality foods in times of famine. Unlike P. boisei which generally is found in the context of closed, wet environments, P. aethiopicus seems to have inhabited bushland to open woodland habitats around edaphic (water-logged) grasslands. The Omo–Turkana Basin 2.5 million years ago featured a mix of forests, woodlands, grasslands, and bushlands, though grasslands appear to have been expanding through the Early Pleistocene. Homo seems to have entered the region 2.5–2.4 million years ago.
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The Dreaming is an original English-language manga series created by artist/author Queenie Chan and published by Tokyopop. It is one of the first manga put out by the company that were not made in Japan. Jeanie and Amber Malkin - identical twin sisters - are new students at the 100-year-old Greenwich Private College, a boarding school in North Sydney, Australia that lies on the edge of vast, virgin bushlands. After settling in and meeting new friends, the girls learn an unsettling secret: time and time again over the past century, students have wandered off into the wilderness surrounding the school and vanished without a trace, never to return.
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Accessed 19 September 2019. The lake basins are, from north to south, Lake Baringo, Lake Bogoria, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha, Lake Elementaita, and Lake Magadi in Kenya, and Lake Natron, Lake Manyara, Lake Burungi, Lake Eyasi, Lake Kitangiri, Lake Balangida, Lake Singida, and Lake Sulunga in Tanzania."Southern Eastern Rift" "Freshwater Ecoregions of the World". Accessed 19 September 2019. In the Kenyan portion of the Southern Eastern Rift, Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets occupies the rift valley floor, with East African montane forests along the high eastern and western escarpments. In the Tanzanian portion, Serengeti volcanic grasslands occur east and west of the Ngorongoro Highlands. The plateau itself, along with Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro, are covered in East African montane forests.
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A long-time supporter of Bancroft's work, Ms Bryce said: "Why I love Australia is a work and title that, again, speaks volumes of its author and illustrator. It simply and exquisitely rejoices in telling a story of this magnificent, sacred land we share: the mountains, rivers and gorges; seas and coral reefs; grasslands and bushlands; saltpans and snow; houses and streets; the jeweled night sky, and so much more." Bancroft's art has also appeared in the publications of a number of other individuals and organisations, including as cover art for books from the Australian Museum and the New South Wales Education Department, for Larissa Behrendt's novel Home, and for Roberta Sykes's controversial autobiographical narratives Snake Cradle and Snake Dancing, among others.
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The house was designed as a two-storey villa, constructed in brick with a terracotta shingle roof, and designed so that the majority of rooms had their own private outdoor area or patio. Homes opposite the Donaldson property, between the present Bushlands Avenue (formerly Gertrude Avenue) and St John's Church were Cranbrook (occupier Patrick Deery), Kai-Ora, (occupier George West), and Kinawanna (occupier Rev George Brown, a Methodist missionary). The Ku-ring-gai Shire Council was also temporarily occupying the St John's Church of England Hall, a wooden building facing the main street. A year after the house was completed, 1916,Noel Bell Ridley Smith, 1998, 12Noel Bell Ridley Smith, 1998, 14 a timber framed garage was built near the north-west corner of the house, to accommodate Mr Donaldson's first car, a Studebaker.
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Admeus, within the Penede-Gerês National park, showing the diverse nature of the only national park Areas classified as national parks encompass regions that represent natural regional characteristics that demonstrate a biodiversity of natural and human landscapes, as well as geosites with scientific, ecological or educational value. The classification of an area as a national park is influenced by the region's natural value, conserving the ecological integrity of the ecosystem, its constituent elements and ecological processes within that territory, and prevent intensive exploitation by adapting of compatible measures for the region's conservancy. Peneda-Gerês National Park is the only designated national park in Portugal; located in the northwest corner of the territory, it belongs to the PAN Parks network. The Peneda-Gerês National Park has a variety of oak and mixed-forests, interspersed by groves, peat bogs, and diverse bushlands.
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His books and photography, especially Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station, graphically document the impacts of human activity on New Zealand's unique environment. Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station' was published in 1921 (and reprinted in 1926 with a new preface, map and index). It documented the impact of humans on New Zealand's environment in an easy reading, non-scientific yet accurate manner. It is an internationally acclaimed classic of ecological writing and was New Zealand's first significant environmentalist publication. In 2003 Michael King wrote: > “Our first ecological book, and still our best example of this genre. The > transformation of New Zealand from bushlands to grasslands farming is > anatomised in this close examination of the effects of plant and animal > introductions on one piece of Hawke’s Bay.” Before his death in 1940 he revised and added to Tutira. The revised edition was published in 1953.
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The Karajarri were divided into two distinct groups, those who inhabited the coastal areas, called Naja (Nadja), and the inlanders dwelling on the eastern plains and bushlands, the Nawutu (Naudu). The social hierarchy was headed by ritual leaders (pirrka, literally 'roots of a tree'), male elders who organized ceremonial life, and who are also responsible for management of the country and the general affairs of tribal members. Members of a Karajarri group were classified in four ways, panaka, purrungu, parrjari and karimpa, a tribal taxonomy that is determined by alternate generation levels distinguished along moiety lines called inara. Thus one inara, represented by the barn swallow ('wiyurr), is panaka-purrungu, being constituted by self, grandparents, sisters, brothers, cousins and grandchildren, together with marriageable partners and their siblings, the other, karimpa-parrjarri, is inclusive of one's mother, father, aunts, uncles, great grandparents and grandchildren, and is emblemized in terms of the fork-tailed swift (kitirr).
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