Swamp Wallabies fertilise our forests, help lockup carbon, spread native plants and fungi through the landscape, and support dozens of insects and other invertebrates. Their versatile ecology has also helped to buffer our ecosystems from the effects of megafauna and mesofauna extinctions...
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Word from the Wild – September 2021
Welcome to our seasonal update! While a lot of Australia finds itself in lockdown, nature continues to excite and amaze us no matter what challenges are thrown our way. There are tonnes of amazing ways to connect to nature, whether at home or farther afield...
Conservation starts with community: Connecting Country and land restoration in Central Victoria
Connecting Country is a community-led conservation organisation based in the Mount Alexander region of north-central Victoria whose central tenet is to engage the local community in restoring and caring for the land...
Capturing connections: The inspiration behind Victorian author and illustrator Trace Balla
Self-taught author and illustrator of six books, Trace Balla, walks me through her garden – virtually – and sets me (her computer) down in the studio tucked beside a grapevine at the back of her property in the Dja Dja Wurrung Country of central Victoria...
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals: Looking past the dangerous stereotypes of the world’s deadliest animals
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...
Playing the long game: Norfolk Island’s coral reef and lagoons
One thing that has become clear to me on this journey is that we have some amazing things here on Norfolk Island – species that are rare and perhaps even endangered. Some species that are endemic to this island, and some that may even be new to science...
Birds on the antenna: lessons from a year of lockdown in Sri Lanka
I started waking up early to watch the sunrise and took note of the birds that frequented the TV antennae of neighbouring rooftops...
Word from the Wild – June 2021
Welcome to the very first edition of our new Remember The Wild newsletter!