Near my house, in Melbourne’s west is one of the city’s incredible aquatic arteries – the mighty Maribyrnong River, Wurundjeri Country. Here, I’ve had the pleasure of walking along the river habitat ...

Its long nose is reminiscent of a bandicoot, and its large ears recall those of an adult quoll. But its defining feature is the red around the base of its tail. The tail, which can be longer than its ...

On a hot September day, the propeller of a six-seater plane shudders to a stop on a tiny flat, treeless island. From the air, hundreds of resident juvenile green turtles were spotted feeding along the ...

These efforts have created real change, shown in the return of at-risk woodland birds to revegetated sites, in the new abundance of plant species in areas where cultural burning has been conducted, ...

My happy place, the Fitzgerald River National Park, is in the south-west corner of the continent between Albany and Esperance, Goreng, Menang and Wudjari Country, Western Australia. When I spend time ...

The numbers are significant: 235,000 hectares, 100-plus years of cattle grazing, and countless camels, donkeys and rabbits. The scale of the job for Bush Heritage at Evelyn Downs is enormous. But the ...

At first sight, the dry landscape of the Tasmanian Midlands seems an unlikely contender for the title of ‘National Biodiversity Hotspot’. There are only 15 of these hotspots in Australia; areas with ...

Pygmy Possums quickly took up residence in the nest boxes we erected in restored habitat at our Monjebup North reserve in southwest WA. What we didn't expect were the large colonies of social spiders ...