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T FIRST GLANCE, Robert McLean seems an unlikely conservationist. A meat-truck driver by day, he’s a bloke who loves steak, beer ...

In early spring, at about nine months of age, baby numbats start to take their first forays in the world outside their burrows. ...

We look out for known numbats including Picasso, named for his bushy, paintbrush-like tail; Sheriff, who lives in an area the ta ...

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Katie Keophilaphet (at right) and Ann-Marie Meredith explore the intricate stalactite and stalagmite calcite deposits that grow ...

Hidden Nullarbor Dissolved below the world’s largest limestone karst landscape are the enigmatic caves of the Nullarbor Plain, t ...

48 Australian Geographic LMOST EXACTLY 100KM west of the Western Australia–South Australia border, Graham Pilkington twists and ...

January. February 49 The horizontal lozenge shape of this chamber of the Old Homestead Cave hints it was dissolved out of the ro ...

50 Australian Geographic Old Homestead’s two ‘doline’ or sinkhole entrances – one north and one south – lead to complex passages ...

January. February 51 which are found only here, in the US state of Florida, and on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, all of which all ...

Drifting above Rainbow Valley, the drone captures the afternoon sun as it highlights a palette of red, orange and white sandston ...

Above the Centre Long-time AG photographer Andrew Gregory heads into Australia’s heart to explore it from a whole new perspectiv ...

54 Australian Geographic in the heat, Gosse Bluff looks like a mountain range drifting above an endless plain. Its position in t ...

January. February 55 F OR THIS JOURNEY in search of arid zone scenery, I’m following the Red Centre Way. It’s a series of connec ...

56 Australian Geographic WATCH Use the free viewa app to scan this page and see spectacular aerial footage of the Red Centre. Gu ...

January. February 57 Rotating the camera on the UAV can produce previously impossible images. Here we look through the gap at Gl ...

58 Australian Geographic Captured by my UAV, Kings Canyon in Watarrka is a slice through that geological history, where the more ...

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Conser vation Heroes Here’s our rundown of the people who have had the greatest influence on protecting Australia’s creatures an ...