In 2018, I booked a Cub tour at the Dingo Discovery Centre in Toolern Vale, Victoria, imagining how lovely it would be to cuddle some cute dingo cubs. But what I discovered that day changed my world...
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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...
Of bird nests and bench grinders
She and her mate are bush songsters. Their melodious whistling reverberates among the eucalypts each morning and reminds me, as I lie in bed, that I have come home....
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...
Street art doesn’t have to D-V-Ate from conservation
When Jimmy Beattie first started dabbling in graffiti art around 1996, there was no such thing as a professional mural artist. These days, Jimmy works almost solely on conservation-focused commissions, mostly of local Victorian species.
The quest for a perfect nest: what box is best?
Seeing a plywood nest box tucked amongst the branches of a tree or hoisted around its trunk is a familiar sight to many Australians. But how effective really are these well-intentioned makeshift homes at housing Australia’s unique and diverse wildlife?
4 ways to keep your lockdown walk interesting
So how on earth do I make the 160th walk during my lunchtime break seem new and exciting? Here’s a few things I’ve tried…