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	<title>REAL DIRT</title>
	
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	<description>environmental news, opinion and photographs from James Woodford</description>
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		<title>What’s a Dead Penguin Worth to a Politican?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hazard reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kikuyu]]></category>
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It&#8217;s been a while since one of Real Dirt&#8217;s favourite contributors, Professor Poongschtock, has felt the need to fly into print. This time penguin exploitation has irked the good professor and he is as mad as a cut snake&#8230;
Just how low can a politician stoop in pursuit of power? It’s a question that’s been asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Owl!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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By JAMES WOODFORD
Sometimes, no matter how much your family needs you, going straight home is not an option.
In Tasmania masked owls are an endangered species &#8211; as few as 650 pairs are left.
But on Lord Howe Island the Tasmanian race, the same sub-species of this raptor are absolutely thriving, living in densities unheard of elsewhere.
Perversely, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biobanking: the One Goal Wonder</title>
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		<comments>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2010/05/24/biobanking-the-one-goal-wonder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 11:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
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About four or five years ago I got invited to attend a seminar to mark the impending arrival of Biobanking. It was supposed to mark the dawn of a new future for the development/conservation compact in NSW but even back then it looked a whole lot of hooey.
Today I got this baffling e-mail from, David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Goss on the Gale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 03:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest Viewpoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bureau of meteorology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sailing]]></category>
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Stuart Kininmonth is a marine ecologist and sailor  based in Townsville. He has a fascination with the perfect breeze, well forecast.  Here is his take on the highs and lows of wind predictions&#8230;
There is nothing like good planning to make a cruise enjoyable. You study the tide charts, check the food list, measure the fuel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Pumpkins</title>
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		<comments>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2010/05/04/why-kevin-rudd-has-to-confront-his-inner-pumpkin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 03:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.realdirt.com.au/?p=305</guid>
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I don’t much like pumpkins and I don’t much like the end of Summer. I always know when winter is coming because Prue harvests all the pumpkins and we have a mountain of them placed somewhere inconvenient. This year they have been turned into a sculpture in the exact spot where I like to sit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marine Parks: locking in the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
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This week two of the nation&#8217;s leading fish scientists, Professor David Booth and Dr Will Figueira, representing the Australian Marine Sciences Association, gave evidence to the NSW Parliament on marine parks&#8230;here is an edited extract of their submission.
Despite the claims by many critics of marine parks, there is at this point, overwhelming evidence that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music, Magic, Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[national folk festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.realdirt.com.au/?p=276</guid>
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On a Monday morning at the start of a busy week it&#8217;s hard to find a few  minutes to  just enjoy something wonderful and beautiful. A friend,  Stuart Cohen,  sent me his link to his work documenting the National Folk  Festival,  which was held in Canberra over the Easter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest From Lough….</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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Janice Lough is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian  Institute of Marine Science and one of the nation&#8217;s leading climate scientists &#8211; her work on cores from ancient corals has confirmed that dramatic, unprecedented climate changes are underway right now. Lough&#8217;s message at the recent Coral Reefs Symposium, held in Brisbane in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once in a lifetime flooding in central Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[central australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desert ecology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.realdirt.com.au/2010/03/12/once-in-a-lifetime-flooding-in-central-australia/</guid>
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Headline-grabbing floods in towns like Roma, Charleville and St George have slightly obscured a massive water event that has been quietly snaking its way through far western Queensland. This week Adam Kerezsy flew over flooded Central Australia and has this report on one of the biggest ecological stories this year.
Story and pictures Adam Kerezsy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kangaroos swept away, dams overwhelmed, coastal lakes filled</title>
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		<comments>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2010/02/15/great-day-for-ducks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood]]></category>
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For over a year the NSW south coast has slowly cracked and dried.
A little over a week ago a neighbour and his friends tried to save native fish as they struggled to survive in a coastal lagoon that had gone so rank everything living in it was starting to die. A few days later it [...]]]></description>
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