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ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS AND UPDATES COMPILED BY JO IMMIG

JO IMMIG

Jo is an environmental scientist, photographer and writer. She has worked in the environment movement for decades and is co-ordinator of the National Toxics Network, an organisation dedicated to creating a toxic-free future. She has written many articles for magazines and is the author of two books: Toxic Playground and Safer Solutions. WHEAT DISGUISE STYMIES MICE A chance glimpse of a photo of a wheat field impacted by a mouse plague caught the eye of Sydney University-based conservation biologist Peter Banks and led to innovative research that could be a gamechanger in the management of rodents. You might think mice dig soil willy-nilly looking for seeds but in fact they’re strategic and excavate them in neat lines just as they find them in the ground. The neat lines in the photograph were what caught…

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