We've been exploring the issue of forgotten fauna on the Australian mainland for some time, and thanks to a recent documentary on the ABC, we can now get an incredibly intimate understanding of what life is like for one of these long-forgotten, now extinct mainland...
It was a great privilege to recently participate in an online seminar to kick off the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, hosted by Landcare Tasmania. The event was live streamed, but due to some technical difficulties not everyone who registered was able to able to...
I had moments of doubt when I wondered if this day would ever come...
It has been a little while since the last Mainland Forgotten Fauna instalment - Part 11 - where we looked back at the time when the stony rises of western Victoria were teeming with quolls.Eastern Barred Bandicoot - Parameles gunnii.This was also an era when western...
A few weeks ago, I was fortunate to participate in a DELWP-hosted discussion about the future of quolls in Victoria. The discussion was prompted by several Indigenous groups around the state who are concerned about the loss of quoll species - and our native predators...
National Threatened Species Day is celebrated annually on the 7th September to commemorate the death of the last Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) in Hobart in 1936. Although the origin of National Threatened Species Day is sad and gloomy, it is a good time to reflect on...
After taking a bit of much needed time to catch up on a number of things away from NGT, I'll finally be properly back on deck in a couple of weeks, just in time to see our wetlands bursting into life this spring