Aquatic surveys: Investigating Tasmania’s waterways and their natural values
Aquatic surveys are a vital part of any natural values assessment. Tasmania’s rivers, wetlands and estuaries support a rich variety of life, from threatened fish…
Weed Surveys and Management
Mirror bush: Harmless garden beauty or silent environmental threat?
Mirror bush (Coprosma repens), a New Zealand native, with its glossy foliage and vibrant berries, has long been used in Tasmanian gardens as an ornamental.…
FOBSI – North Barker battles boxthorn on Mt Chappell Island
North Barker are proud to support the Friends of the Bass Strait Islands (FOBSI) Wildcare group, to which, through our relationship with Karen Ziegler, we…
Voluntourism – Picnic Island weed control 2021-25
In 2008 North Barker undertook a natural values assessment for the accommodation facility at Picnic Island. Back then, the only built infrastructure was a tiny…
Disa paper accepted for publication
The collecting history of Disa bracteata Sw. (South African orchid) in Tasmania (Australia), the state’s only naturalised member of the Orchidaceae family, is presented. Details of its…