Wildlife Australia - Spring 2017

Sometimes, rare species turn up in strange places, surprising even experienced scientists. Tasked with trapping spoil dumps in K ...

Mountain pygmy-possums gorge on Bogong moths and seeds in summer and can double their body weight as they store up fat for some ...

PIMP MY DUMP: CREATING POSSUM HOMES The NPWS Landforms and Rehabilitation Team is tasked with rehabilitating sites within Kosciu ...

SMOKY MOUSE (PSEUDOMYS FUMEUS) Status: Vulnerable (IUCN); Critically Endangered in NSW. Population data is lacking but the speci ...

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colleagues at SEQ Catchments, I assessed Moreton Bay Marine Park (MBMP) for potential World Heritage listing based on its cultur ...

Rich in cultural heritage More than 1000 cultural and historic sites dot the islands, waterways and foreshores stretching from s ...

B C doesn’t meet either national or international standards for nomination. The nominal World Heritage places are clustered into ...

I t’s a widely accepted view that the best relationships take time. My love affair with Australia’s mangrove ecosystems grew slo ...

Overall, mangroves are mostly flowering plants less than one metre tall, distinguishing them from tidal saltmarsh plants in tida ...

A B C E D F G H Mangroves occur around most of the Australian mainland, increasing in diversity along warmer, wetter shorelines ...

Mangroves occupy around 15,300 ha of Moreton Bay and are among the region’s most crucial ecosystems. They are most extensive and ...

although there were notable instances of training walls and access roads to the river and damage was observed behind training wa ...

I predict that 10 years from now, studying and enjoying wild plants and animals will become much more popular thanks to the prol ...

WHAT’S THAT WEED? Introduced and invasive weeds can drastically reduce plant biodiversity in Australia. A critical factor in dea ...

If 1(b) was correct, you would go to couplet 3. By selecting descriptions that match the specimen, you’d follow a tree-like (dic ...

‘There’s no WiFi in the forest, but you’ll find a better connection.’ Ironically, memes about ‘switching off’ often go viral on ...

S mall voices drift through the trees, mingled with birdsong. A flash of red high in the tree might be a parrot, or perhaps a di ...