Watching dolphins from the shore is an incredible gift, but experiencing time together with them in the water is something else all together...
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Fur and Flowers: Melbourne’s Mammalian Pollinators
These days there’s a lot of buzz surrounding pollinators. When most of us think of them, our minds quickly turn to bees and butterflies. However, in Australia we have a diverse range of warm-blooded pollinators working through the night to keep our forests growing strong, and many of them call our city home...
Nursing a Green Thumb: The Restorative Powers of People and Plants
It soon became apparent to me that, in the most beautiful sense of irony, the nursery was in fact nursing people and not just plants. The enthusiastic and energised atmosphere coupled with the therapeutic act of gardening was providing feelings of wellbeing that lingered well into the week, permeating each person’s daily life...
Bloomin’ Backyard
I savour a sip of tea from my first cuppa for the day and focus on our lively backyard. Fruiting trees planted in rows like a small orchard still bear the remains of the wonderful spring bloom we recently enjoyed...
A Forest of Sculpture
You don’t need to be a scientist; you don’t need to be an artist. The Toolonagi Sculpture Trail blends worlds: ecology, sculpture, walking, observing, participating...
Wonder beneath the Westgate
Westgate Park is a diamond in the rough, a haven amongst shipping containers and cranes. The beauty and diversity within the park in its industrial context is astonishing and gives visitors a glimpse into a time when the mouth of the Yarra was a more peaceful place...
Life on the Merri
The Merri Creek meanders through Melbourne’s north, running from out past Craigieburn through to Dights Falls in Abbotsford where it joins the Yarra. It’s a wildlife hotspot for Melbourne, running through some of the last remnant native grasslands in Melbourne and providing habitat for platypus, echidnas, endangered frogs, and all manner of birds and other critters....
At Land’s End: The Beauty of Point Nepean
Point Nepean National Park is 90 km from Melbourne, but at only a few minutes’ drive from Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula, it is a popular tourist destination...
Community Conservationists
How To Nature
Episode 1
The amazing life and death of the ocean’s greatest camouflage expert
Episode 2
Number one on death row: saving the phantom of the plains
Episode 3
The mind-blowing life of the gateway bee
Episode 4
Searching for Australia’s most elusive marsupial
Episode 5
The 3-metre worm you will never have seen
