Night Matters: 100 Nights of a Lifetime – The World’s Ultimate Adventures After Dark ft Stephanie VermillionLet National Geographic be your guide to the world after dark. In this beautifully illustrated volume you will discover all there is to see and do after the sun goes down.
There is something for everyone in this nocturnal collection. Spanning more than 30 countries, this book offers adventures big and small including:
- Snorkeling at night with manta rays off the coast of Kona, Hawaii
- Searching for glowing mushrooms at night in the wilds of Australia
- Tubing under a “starry sky” of glow worms in New Zealand
- Wildlife spotting on a night safari game drive in Tanzania.
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LNL Summer: Learning the language of birds
ABC RN | Late Night Live, 13 Jan 2025Australia had songbirds millions of years before they reached Europe, Asia, Africa or the Americas. Our birds gave song to the world. And now these songbirds are helping to connect humans back to the natural environment. Learning bird language is a unique way of bird watching. Our ancestors learned bird language for survival but also to live a better life – the more in-tune with nature, the more you could predict the weather and food opportunities. Now people are again tapping into the language of birds.
Guests: Andrew Turbill , bird language expert / Dan Lyons, outdoor educator and owner of Wangat, a regenerated bush property Dungog.
Image Details:The green catbird (Ailuroedus crassirostris) is a species of bowerbird (Supplied, Andrew Turbill)
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Creating Black Cockatoo Friendly Suburbs, by Dr Christine Groom, UWA Publishing.
Landscapes in urban areas can be designed to maximise benefits to native wildlife, biodiversity and to make a healthier environment for residents. While the subject of this book is the Carnaby cockatoo, the principles apply across most Black Cockatoo species.
To help secure the future of cockatoos adjust-ments need to be made: roost sites need to be protected; water sources need to be safely provided; public gardens need to provide food sources. Creating Black Cockatoo Friendly Suburbs is a guide to simple but effective measures that everyone can use whether you are a landscaper, developer or the everyday home gardener – measures that everyone can use to enhance the landscape and biodiversity of our suburbs for the benefit of endangered species, like the black cockatoo, and urban biodiversity.
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Living with Wildlife, is a practical and wildlife-friendly guide for successfully living alongside our wild neighbours.Explores commonly asked questions and issues about encounters with wildlife. Taking a wildlife-friendly approach, Tanya Loos provides practical information, advice and solutions, based on current guidance from wildlife rescue organisations and the latest research.
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Costa’s Garden – Flowers
Costa Georgiadis and Brenna Quinlan, ABC Books, 2024
‘Hello! I’m Costa, and welcome to my garden. Let’s discover the joy of nature together.’
Flowers are the part of a plant that smiles. Flowers make us smile too! There are so many different kinds of flowers – all the colours of the rainbow.
Join Australia’s favourite garden gnome as he shares the magic and wonder of the natural world with young readers.
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Green cities, zero emissions in construction, industry and transport essential for civilisation to flourish, ABC RN, The Science Show. 22 Feb 2025. Click HERE to listen.
Can St Louis Missouri, the city of 280,000 residents located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers be the nature city of the twenty-first century?
Meanwhile, Peter Newman in Perth says San Antonio Texas has seen a great outcome with the restoration of the San Antonio River. He cites other examples where flora, fauna and natural ecosystems have been reintroduced back into cities. Peter Newman says embracing nature and reducing emissions is essential for our civilisation’s long-term viability.
