Jarrod Reedie
The University of New South Wales is revitalising its Alumni Park, in what the university hopes will become a more interactive and engaging experience for the UNSW Sydney community.
Providing new recreation facilities for students and staff, the park will also embrace the history of the land and its people, and recognise the contribution of the alumni.
UNSW chief technology and infrastructure officer Jeff Peers says the park will pay tribute to past students who have made the redevelopment of the park possible through their donations.
”Alumni Park will provide our students with a great environment to relax on campus. Importantly, this has been made possible by our University’s alumni, who will also be encouraged to enjoy the new space when they visit campus. als,” he says.
Residents of a protest flashpoint district in Myanmar's biggest city fled on flatbed trucks and tuk-tuks after security forces escalated the use of lethal force against anti-coup protesters, despite international appeals for restraint.
Inspired by the United Nations Aichi Biodiversity Targets, nations are rallying behind an ambitious pledge to conserve 30 percent of their lands and waters by 2030. However, more than two-thirds of the world’s marine protected areas (MPAs), a primary marine conservation tool, allow some form of fishing. Now, an in-depth study of MPAs along Australia’s southern coast shows that these partially protected reserves are largely ineffective both for protecting biodiversity, and for improving people’s enjoyment of the protected space. The study, conducted by social ecologist John Turnbull and his colleagues at the University of New South Wales in Australia calls partially protected marine reserves “red herrings” that “create an illusion of protection and consume scarce conservation resources.”