In her second publication, illustrator and author Sami Bayly invites you to look at (but don’t touch!) some of the strangest and deadliest animals that walk our earth...
Category: Arts & Culture
The story of Blackbutt and Scribbly: the ‘odd couple’ of K’gari and a very hungry caterpillar
Meet Oscar and Felix, otherwise known as Scribbly Gum and Blackbutt: two trees who live together on the sand island of K'gari...
frankie magazine is making nature connection a priority in 2021
It’s almost as if the team at frankie could have predicted the chaos of 2020 that would see so many more people getting better acquainted with their feathered friends while physically cut off from human ones...
5 reasons to buy a field guide for a child in your life
There’s one birthday present I was given as a child that I still use to this day, and that’s my Field Guide to the Birds of Australia...
A glimpse into the past: can Australian landscape paintings be used as ‘guiding images’ for environmental rehabilitation?
When useful works of art are identified and verified, they can be invaluable tools for environmental rehabilitation...
Faunaverse on the essential business of nature education
To Alex and Jane, creating closer connections between humans and the natural world is not a niche or idealistic desire: it’s essential, for humans and the environment alike...
Voting is open for Eucalypt of the Year 2020! Our team’s favourites
The Candlebark Gum holds a special place in my heart as it evokes a sense of nostalgia for my childhood...
Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals shines a spotlight on aesthetically challenged fauna
This was the beginning of a lasting fascination with sometimes-maligned or otherwise unattractive animals, the stars of Sami's new book The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals...
Reflections from Eucalypt Australia: Eucalypt of the Year 2019
Our wide brown land is full of harsh environments of different kinds, and eucalypts have colonised nearly all of them...
Looking back on Day by the Bay 2019
As summer drew to a close on March 23 we celebrated all things bayside and beautiful with our second Day by the Bay festival....