Can we put an end to species extinction?
Featured image: Eastern bandicoot, living on Munibung Hill, is a close relative of the Bilby - one of the species on the to-save list. With Australia at the forefront of…
Lights off for moths
Mountain pygmy-possums weigh just 40 grams when they awake from months of hibernation.CREDIT:ZOOS VICTORIA This story is about how everything is interconnected. How our choices and lifestyles affect the lifestyles…
Mixed forest with Ironbark, bloodwood, box, cypress pine, and varied understorey in Pilliga State Conservation Area (northern portion) to be managed for wildlife conservation by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.
It depends on how close or how distant we are
From a distance a landscape can appear to be simply a shape on the horizon. All that can be seen is an outline or at best "a confusing series of…
TreeSisters building a relationship with trees
Clare Dubois had one of those aha moments a few years back. It was the motivating factor in what has become a worldwide program to plant millions of trees in…
A call to recalibrate our relationship with the land
There’s a call for a change in our mindset about land, in the writing of this timely book. Author of Who’s Minding the Farm? In this climate emergency, Patrice Newell,…
Art meets science in Speers Point Park
When science and art meet the outcome is yet another example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. Put a bunch of enthusiastic citizen scientists in…
When learning and play are one
"Back in the day when I was a child, they made learning fun, so you didn't see it as anything different or new - it was just natural," writes Ningali…
When sound science and vision combine for the common good
Forest conservation, rainforest protection, World Heritage and national parks are just some of the reaons to reflect on the life and times of Peter Hitchcock, who was responsible for protecting…
On the right side of time
The publication Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, by science writer James Gleick was written 20 years ago. Oliver Burkeman in: Don't be on the wrong side of thinking…
Children and food and our connection with nature
Good grief, what on earth is going on? Here we are in the 21st century and a large percentage of children haven't got the foggiest idea where their food comes…