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Combining conservation and cake for Threatened Species Day

06 Sep 2018 | Filed under genetic insights

The teams at cesar and EnviroDNA have put their baking skills to the test ahead of Threatened Species Day.

What I learned from going ‘Plastic Free’ for a month.

05 Sep 2018 | Filed under company announcements

Let’s face it – plastic is amazing. It has a million different uses and is one of the reasons we enjoy the standard of living that we do today. But it is this very ‘amazingness’ that makes it such a problem. It virtually never breaks down.

cesar teams up with San Diego Zoo Global

07 Aug 2018 | Filed under genetic insights

In 2018 cesar will bring its platypus monitoring expertise to a new, large scale platypus project. It is hoped that the results of this study—the largest-scale investigation of platypus populations ever undertaken— will help people better manage waterways to protect platypus and other species that depend on them.

cesar researchers and collaborators in the running for Eureka gong

25 Jul 2018 | Filed under genetic insights, company announcements

For playing a leading role in ground breaking threatened species recovery work cesar Director, Dr Andrew Weeks, is part of a group of scientists that have been nominated for the prestigious Eureka prize in 2018.

Far North Queensland wasp collections have exciting implications for management of the new vegetable leafminer pest in Australia

30 Jun 2018 | Filed under sustainable agriculture

A new and significant agricultural threat, vegetable leafminer (VLM, Liriomyza sativae), reached the Australian mainland in 2015 and has established in Seisia (one of the northernmost communities of the Cape York Peninsula).