I went to take a closer look at the first Slender-billed White-eye nest I had ever seen. Nestled at the bottom was a single precious egg...
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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...
Cultivating a Sugar Glider Grove in your garden – a DIY guide
Noisy and boisterous Brushtails often give all possums a bad name. But the Sugar Glider, another possum, doesn’t deserve this reputation at all...
Extinction is a process, not an event
Setting aside a single day of the year for threatened species awareness posits extinction as an event. But extinction is a process.
A time-travelling botanist and Australia’s first plants
The vast continent of Australia is home to some of the world’s most unusual plants, so it’s hardly surprising that the extinct plants that once dwelt here were just as strange...
3 add-ons guaranteed to bring birds to your backyard
While some of our native bird species only make their homes in pristine wilderness, many can be coaxed into suburbia with the right sort of gardening...
Transform your garden into a backyard bat haven
It may come as a surprise to learn that these cryptic creatures comprise almost a third of Australia’s mammal diversity, and fulfil a remarkable range of ecological roles...
One farm, one mission to save a turtle population
A nesting season had just passed and three protected nests had successfully born hatchlings. I was anxiously anticipating the next nesting...