Eucalyptus

belly, accompanying her everywhere until it is about a year old. Koalas live in eastern Australia, where the eucalyptus trees they love are found. In fact, they rarely leave these trees, and their sharp claws are absolutely perfect for climbing. During the day, they sleep tucked into forks or nooks in the trees and sleep for up to 18 hours. When they are not asleep, a Koala eats the eucalyptus leaves, especially at night since they are nocturnal creatures. Koalas do not drink much water and…

Australia is a country that experiences a lot of 'natural disasters'. This includes floods, bushfires, severe storms, earthquakes, landslides and much more. These disasters cause a lot of hardship for people and their community, and can ultimately result in death, which has been told in a lot of ‘Australian folklore’. Australia is also one of the driest of all populated continents in the world, with its climates varying all the time. Large parts of Australia may experience a drought at any given…

The Koala, a prominent symbol of Australia, should be protected at all costs; this being the goal of the prospective Koala Protection Act (National Geographic). The home of Koala bears, being the Eucalyptus Forest, are being destroyed to make more room for roads, houses, and farms (National Geographic). These forests are everything for the Koala, the trees provide and and shelter just to name a few (National Geographic; “Koala Protection Act”). For this reason the forest must be protected so…

Conventional medicine is not the only answer to life’s simple illnesses. There are many natural, spiritual, and holistic remedies for endless ailments. For example, clove oil had been used in dental materials and dental patients have used it to treat toothaches. Reiki is a studied discipline that has proven biological effects on the patient. Many hospitals around the country are training staff member to become Reiki masters to aid patients in healing. There is also an extensive use of prayer and…

The cane toad reproductive system especially of male consists of the fat bodies and this cannot be found in a reproductive system of a common brushtail possum. The process of how sperm travels is also different between the two animals. In a common brushtail possum, the sperm travels through the vasa deferentia, which transports the sperm from the epididymis to the urethra (Venugopal, 2016. pg 3.5). While in a cane toad the vasa efferentia helps carry the sperm from the testes to the kidney and…

All wildlife in the zone is connected in some way. One interrelation is a food chain starting with fallen leaves from the native tree, the eucalyptus. These leaves are then eaten by many insects (EncyclopediaNature , 2017). The insects are then consumed by a carnivorous marsupial known as the brush-tailed phascogale who can also digest small birds (NSWGOVERNMENT , 2017 ). Finally, the marsupial…

They build their nest in old eucalyptus tree hollows. They sometimes use cavities in cliffs. The nest is lined with decayed wood. The Long-billed Corella are considered pests by farmers because they damage grain crops and orchards. The Long-billed Corella is sometimes shot by the…

constituents offer a safe alternative to synthetic acaricides for the control of this mite in bee hives. The present study was conducted to evaluate anti-parasitic activity of essential oils from Thymus kotschyanus Bioss & Hohen., Mentha longifolia L., Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh., and Ferula gummosa L. at concentrations of 1, 2.5, 4, and 5.5 µl/l air for 5 and 10 h. Findings indicated that mite mortality increased as oils concentration and exposure time increased. T. kotschyanus oil at 5.5…

protected areas in the Central Highlands. The proposed park is made up of current State Forest, Special Protection Zones and existing Parks and Reserves as seen in figure 12 and 14. The area is home to large ash forests, rainforest and vine thickets, eucalyptus tall open and open forests and woodlands. This area is under threat from logging, bushfires (Figure 3) and the destruction of habitat of precious animal and plant species, 40 of which nest in the hollows and crevices of large trees.…

of many peoples human mortality and identity. Lopez then goes on to explain how living with water in a dry california valley has shaped him to be who he is today. For lopez he says his imagination was shaped by experiencing the wind through the eucalyptus trees and other sensory memories. A Little further in the essay Lopez goes on to explain that in his pieces of writing he includes things that he grew up around to help shape the way he described something. In the essay he also explains how…