User:Phanly/Timeline of environmental history of Australia

This is a timeline of environmental history of Australia. These events relate to the more notable events affecting the natural environment of Australia including as a result of human activity.

Pre 1700s

60000 BC — Arrival of Aboriginals, Indigenous Australians, from Africa.

Aboriginals use of fire results in limiting the types of plants in many locations to those that can survive or germinate after fire.

1700s

1770 - Joseph Banks, botanist and naturalist, arrives in Australia with (then) Lieutenant James Cook on the HMS Endeavour. While they were in Australia Banks, the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander and the Finnish botanist Dr. Herman Spöring Jr. made the first major collection of Australian flora, describing many species new to science. Almost 800 specimens were illustrated by the artist Sydney Parkinson and appear in Banks' Florilegium, finally published in 35 volumes between 1980 and 1990.

1788 - First fleet arrives with 18 turkeys, 29 geese, 35 ducks, 122 fowls, 87 chickens, kittens, puppies, 4 mares, 2 stallions, 4 cows, 1 bull, 1 bull calf, 44 sheep, 19 goats, 32 hogs, 5 rabbits, Gov. Phillip's greyhounds and Rev. John's cats and with plants and seeds: banana, cocoa, coffee, cotton, eugenia, guava, ipecacuanha, lemon, orange, prickly pear, Spanish reed, and tamarind

1800s

• Gorse introduced as hedging plant.
• Rabbits introduced
• Sheep and cattle introduced at scale.

1950s

Add some information for gods sake...

1970s

1970

1980s

1980

1982

1990s

1990

1994

1998

2000s

2000

• 18 August

• 21 October

Other

(no dates established as yet.)

See also

• Timeline of environmental events
• Timeline of Australian history
• List of environmental organizations#Australia
• Environmental organisations based in Australia
• Environmental movement in Australia
• Environmental issues in Australia