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The aim is to education and to inform the growing public about the harm caused by sudden expansion into the Australian environment.

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#savetheplanet #aussiefuture #urbanvsbiodiversity #biodiversitythreat #thinkb4ubuild

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Marco Calderon, a Deakin PhD student, discussed that urbanising a forested are filled with biota is easy however turning an urban area back into a forest is more difficult
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Marco Calderon, a Deakin PhD student, discussed that urbanising a forested are filled with biota is easy however turning an urban area back into a forest is more difficult
#aussiefuture #thinkb4ubuild #urbanvsbiodiversity #savetheplanet #biodiversitythhreat

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However, the government has developed additional houses for thousands of families who reside near the river, doubling to its load.
https://t.co/p3dCVAXBUo

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Through urbanisation, water pollution is also on the rise. In Sydney Australia, the Hawkesbury river system is under extreme stress due to urban development. Nutrient, bacteria and virus levels includes are high due to the flow of sewage and agricultural run-off.

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for this reason of air quality, the NSW government has made a rule to limit housing developments in the state's south-west of Sydney.
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Fact: motor vehicles are a main contributor to air pollution in Australia and this is given due to the increase with population. Photochemical smog sometimes goes above national health guidelines in areas of Sydney such as the south-west and around Melbourne.

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This pressures biodiversity. An example is non-native garden plants which make up to 72 % of the environmental weeds.
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So we all know that urban areas are a threat to biodiversity, however did you know they can also be an opportunity for biodiversity. Human livelihood and development are an opportunity for new species. T

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Did you know The Victorian government has created protection areas around the growth corridors to protect the threatened species and ecological communicates of the national and state significance, and also to manage the impacts of urban development in urban growth areas.

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Melbourne based, the threatened grassy eucalypt woodlands sits on the Victorian plain peri-urban zone.The woodland remnants cleared to allow increasing urban development.
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Did You Know In Melbourne, 50 per cent of the approximately 40,000 new dwellings built each year are in new greenfield sites.
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Did You Know Biodiversity is also very valuable and an extremely important way to learn, especially for scientists? Without healthy biodiversity systems, scientist isn’t able to see how various species work, produce, consume resources.
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