Creatura Blog Emu-wrens: The birds that weigh the same as a teaspoon of sugar …catch birds in the wild for tagging and surveying. It’s a neat little trick, but doesn’t exactly help the mallee emu-wren’s cause – these tiny birds are endangered, with populations…
Wildlife Why we need to save the southern hairy-nosed wombat I WAS REMINDED of an astronaut when I watched biologist Dave Taggart chase hairy-nosed wombats one night in South Australian farmland. He ran with a giant net, and his every…
Wildlife Wildlife CSI …added a new content advisory when users search a hashtag associated with wildlife exploitation. This is important, Lydia says, because we all have a part to play in ending the…
Wildlife In pictures: the best cakes from the Threatened Species Bake Off …bake off with a twist— all baked goods must be of your favourite threatened species. Use the #TSBakeoff hashtag to enter your cake into the bake off before this Friday….
Wildlife The remarkable eels of Sydney’s Centennial Park …journey itself, we don’t even know the half of it. “I would love to see some research around tagging methods so we can follow their journey; exactly how long it…
Australian Geographic Shark Blog The truth about shark numbers …particular area). Past studies have used a variety of techniques to try to count sharks and assess population trends. Two of the most common methods have included tagging and tracking,…
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Destinations Yarrangobilly thermal pools are a must-do this winter WHETHER YOU’RE resting tired bones after a morning at Selwyn, or you’re the friend that tagged along on the snow trip with no intention of participating in any kind of…
Destinations Ned Kelly, Boofhead and The Black Stump …RSL Club and had the tag on his collar to prove it. “He got kicked out the back door and he’d come in the front door so they had to…
Science & Environment Fires raging in the Amazon rainforest can now be seen from space …tropical forest. Wildfires during the July–August dry season are common, however, data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) found that there have been 73,000 fires, an 83 per…
