Keeping track of an animal’s weight gain is hard and causes stress, which can lead to health problems and weight loss. Sentinel-2 images, GPS collar data, and sheep weight data were used to look at the patterns of grazing and see how they relate to preferred grazing areas. The results suggest that sheep changed the way they grazed depending on the season.

A systems modelling framework was used to analyse an 18-year monitoring data set from an Indian couch (Bothriochloa pertusa) dominated hillslope flume site in the Burdekin catchment, Australia. Results show important functional differences in B. pertusa pastures, relative to the native tussock pastures they replace, with implications for how grazing lands in Great Barrier Reef catchments are managed.

Natural capital accounts provide a method to recognise the carbon storage value of native woodlands on farms and the potential for these areas to sequester carbon under low-input grazing. Areas of native woodland managed with low-input grazing can counter high carbon footprints of more intensive agricultural practices within a farm business, thus reducing overall farm business carbon footprint. Such an approach can potentially encourage practices that reverse further loss of a critically endangered ecosystem and its corresponding biodiversity in Australia.