Australian_Geographic_-_February_2016_

 I T WAS THE battle to save Tasmania’s stunning Franklin River, shortly before this journal was founded in 1986, that really mad ...

62 Australian Geographic B RITISH NATURALIST David Attenborough has seen more of the world than most during his long life of exp ...

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64 Australian Geographic Linda Parlane New Zealand-born Linda Parlane has been a vocal environmental campaigner since she moved ...

January. February 65 OPPOSITE: TOP: GLENN CAMPBELL/FAIRFAX MEDIA; BOTTOM: LYNDON MECHIELSEN/NEWSPIX; THIS PAGE: TOP LEFT: COURTE ...

66 Australian Geographic Grahame Webb Crocodiles are Grahame’s particular passion. He’s a world-leading authority on the creatur ...

Steve devoted his career to saving wildlife. The Crocodile Hunter, as he became known, was Australia’s wildlife conservation pos ...

Jane rose to fame through her 55-year study of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She trained as a secretary a ...

Ron and Val Taylor Surprisingly, Sydney-based Ron and Val – two of the world’s earliest and most outspoken marine conservationis ...

70 Australian Geographic THIS PAGE: BOTTOM: COURTESY TREVOR EVANS; TOP; WOLTER PEETERS; INSET: BEN HANSENOPPOSITE: PETER MORRIS ...

An enduring conservation figurehead, Bob has fronted many big battles in the past 40 years. He rose to prominence in the 1970s w ...

Where THE Historic icon, convenient resource or environmental vandal – brumbies are both revered and reviled across our continen ...

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Tempers flare as competition for water intensifies at Gilbert Springs, south of Ntaria in Central Australia. Dominant stallions ...

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76 Australian Geographic A three-year-old desert brumby, he’s steady and surefooted, with just the right amount of spunk to test ...

Ntaria School student Marley Kantawara dreams of a career as a stockman at Ipolera outstation, NT, while fellow student Dion Par ...

78 Australian Geographic The NPWS believes that the hard-footed beasts have an impact on the sensitive alpine and subalpine envi ...

January. February 79 B RUMBIES GENERALLY belong to one of two social groups in the wild. The first is a harem that usually compr ...

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