Library Connect March 2025

This edition of Library Connect has the usual listing of new books and a few articles for your interest. 

Past issues of Library Connect are available on the library catalogue site at https://library.dcceew.gov.au/cgi-bin/koha/opac-page.pl?page_id=22

The library is staffed Mon - Fri 9.30 - 4.30 and Alex can also be contacted by email or phone (02 6250 9480) if you need assistance.

The selection of ‘free to good home’ books has been refreshed so please drop in for a browse.

The “click and collect” boxes in the Visitor Centre are still available for returning items, and Alex is very happy to leave items there for collection if that’s easier than visiting the library.

For your interest

The Conversation
Rain gave Australia’s environment a fourth year of reprieve in 2024 – but this masks deepening problems: report
Published: March 20, 2025 6.07am AEDT
Albert Van Dijk, Shoshana Rapley, Tayla Lawrie
https://theconversation.com/rain-gave-australias-environment-a-fourth-year-of- reprieve-in-2024-but-this-masks-deepening-problems-report-252183

Mongabay
For ecological restoration, evidence-based standards deliver better outcomes (commentary)
Karma Bouazza and Bethanie Walder
20 Dec 2024
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/for-ecological-restoration-evidence-based-standards-deliver-better-outcomes-commentary/

The Conversation
I spy with my little eye: 3 unusual Australian plant ecosystems to spot on your next roadtrip
Published: February 26, 2025 6.19am AEDT
Gregory Moore
https://theconversation.com/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-3-unusual-australian-plant-ecosystems-to-spot-on-your-next-roadtrip-246129

Australian Geographic
17 incredible Australian women in botany
By AG STAFF • 8 March 2019
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2019/03/17-incredible-australian-women-in-botany/
[and there are many books authored by and about these women in the library]

Engaging Communities to Safeguard Ocean Life
UNESCO Environmental DNA Expeditions
https://www.unesco.org/en/edna-expeditions

The Conversation
How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Published: February 15, 2025 12.43am AEDT
Eric Nost & Alejandro Paz
https://theconversation.com/how-to-find-climate-data-and-science-the-trump-administration-doesnt-want-you-to-see-249321

New additions to the Collection

• Funga obscura: photo journeys among fungi / Alison Pouliot.
• Wattles: Australian Acacia species around the world / edited by David M. Richardson, Johannes J. Le Roux, Elizabete Marchante.
• Darwin and the art of botany: observations on the curious world of plants with artwork from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation / James T. Costa and Bobbi Angell.
• South West Slopes revegetation guide [electronic resource]: (north & south of the Murrumbidgee River) / compiled and edited by Peter Rowland, Kylie Durant & Lou Bull.
• Native vegetation guide for the Riverina [electronic resource]: notes for land managers on its management and revegetation / compiled & edited by Peter Rowland, Kylie Durant & Lou Bull.
• Weeds of the south-east: an identification guide for Australia / F.J. Richardson, R.G. Richardson, R.C.H. Shepherd.
• Walking Canberra's Griffin Weston forest trail / Trevor Lipscombe.
• Eucalypts of Western Australia: the south-west coast and ranges / Malcolm French, Dean Nicolle.
• The ancients: discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania / Andrew Darby.
• Ferns of Australia / David L. Jones.
• Integrating environmental DNA science into Australia’s marine parks [electronic resource]: a roadmap / M. De Brauwer, B. Deagle, P. Dunstan & O. Berry.
• A guide to plants of inland Australia / Philip Moore.