When I wake, I head to the forest, where all is damp and the air is fresh. As always, my senses are on full alert...
Category: <span>People in Nature</span>
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Of bird nests and bench grinders
Here in Australia we are so blessed to have an incredible range of colourful, interesting and unique birdlife. Each year, National Bird Week gets us all a-flutter at Remember The Wild...
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Bird week round-up: our team’s favourite Aussie birds
Here in Australia we are so blessed to have an incredible range of colourful, interesting and unique birdlife. Each year, National Bird Week gets us all a-flutter at Remember The Wild...
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‘Stag watching’ for Fairy Possums is a special kind of magic
I suggested we meet at a cafe; he instead suggested stag watching. Which, it turns out, is a nocturnal expedition into the forest to look for endangered animals.
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How nature kept me sane in lockdown
In mid-March, the perimeter of my physical world shrank to the area from the back of our house to the nature strip outside...
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Ice, wind and sea: a voyage through the Southern Ocean
From 60 degrees south there is the Southern Ocean. Its presence is mighty – notorious for driving winds, humongous swells and vast expanses of sea ice...
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Planted eucalypts are buried treasure on rural properties
Eucalypts have an important – no, critical – role in the future of farming. One important benefit among many that eucalypts provide...
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This Sydney teenager is working for a conservation revolution
Seventeen-year-old Elliot Connor is in his final year of high school – he attends class and studies for exams along with his peers. But outside the classroom he moonlights as founder and CEO of Human Nature Projects...
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Trekking Cradle Mountain: mist, mystery and awe
Nestled within the central highland region of Tasmania, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park wastes no time captivating one with its awesome presence...
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Sinking into the sand – growing up wild in Gippsland
Wilderness comes in many forms. There is the wilderness which is sprawling and green, which pushes out from the sand dunes and creeps upwards into the light...