Clearing a Continent
Clearing a Continent

Author: L. G. Newton

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780643065628

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This monograph on pleuropneumonia in Australia is based on research culled from archives and libraries. Chapters include background to the disease, the first outbreak, and the spread of the disease through Victoria and into New South Wales. There is also information on inoculation and vaccination.

Beating the Odds in a Big Country
Beating the Odds in a Big Country

Author: Robert Lehane

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0643058141

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Recalls one of the most significant animal health achievements in the history ofAustralia.

Australian Animal Law
Australian Animal Law

Author: Elizabeth Ellis

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2022-07-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1743328524

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Australian Animal Law: Context and Critique provides comprehensive information about the legal and regulatory framework governing the interaction between humans and animals. By relating specific content areas to the discipline’s broader characteristics and themes, researcher Elizabeth Ellis exposes the systemic nature of current problems and the consequent need for significant change. This book also illustrates the role of official animal protection narratives in legitimising the existing system despite the many factual flaws they contain. Ellis covers the major areas of animal law in detail, incorporating accessible contextual material and allowing readers to consolidate their understanding and build upon their knowledge. Key areas include the concept of unnecessary animal suffering, the effective exemption of most animals from the operation of cruelty laws, regulatory conflicts of interest, the hidden nature of animal use and the lack of transparency in animal law. Australian Animal Law is an essential resource, inviting reflection on the way the law helps to construct the relationship between human and non-human animals, including through its silences and omissions.

Plants for Arid Lands
Plants for Arid Lands

Author: G.E. Wickens

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 940116830X

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Economic plants have been defined by SEPASAT as those plants that are utilised either directly or indirectly for the benefit of Man. Indirect usage includes the needs of Man's livestock and the maintenance of the environment; the benefits may be domestic, commercial or aesthetic. Economic plants constitute a large and so far uncalculated percentage of the quarter of a million higher plants in the World today. However, it has been calculated that 10% (25 000) of these species are now on the verge of extinction and extinction means that a genetic resource that could be of benefit to Man will be lost for ever. Furthermore, for every species lost an estimated 10-30 other dependent organisms are also doomed. Fewer than 1 per cent of the World's plants have been sufficiently well studied for a true evaluation of the potential floral wealth awaiting discovery, not only in the rain forests, which man is now actively destroying at a rate of 20 ha a minute, but also in the very much neglected dry areas of the World.