The Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society is proud to publish the 100th Arcadia article on the Environment & Society Portal: “Bombs and Biodiversity: A Case Study of Military Environmentalism in Australia” by Benjamin Wilkie from Deakin University, Australia.

Arcadia, a collaboration between the Rachel Carson Center and the European Society for Environmental History – ESEH, publishes short (750 words) environmental histories.

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Feature image: Australian defense forces began training at Puckapunyal during the First World War, and continued into the interwar period. This photo, taken in 1925, shows that areas of the site were still heavily forested at this time. Photo courtesy of Museum Victoria.