I dream of being there that wonderful dawn
at Farm Cove in “New Sydney Town”
The Kookaburras calling where the “Toaster” now stands,
the Rockwarblers “kissing” among boulders further down
THERE REALLY is no end to the fascination that can grip you once you start to examine the lives of birds. Of course not one single organism lives in a vacuum, everything is pressured in so many ways by the behaviour and activities of other species and all must find ways to respond to threats [...]
YOU’D HAVE TO BE out of town to not be aware that there has now been two events at the Manly Little Penguin rookery this week where dogs have attacked and killed penguins. The death toll is now seven.
This is seven Little Penguins too many. These events highlight a convergence of problems that we have [...]
THERE’S STACKS of bird books on the market these days. Some highly technical, some basically informative and some are just good old fashioned coffee table celebrations. Every now and again one shows up which combines all of these elements and when it is full of images taken by one of the world’s great avian photographers [...]
SOMETIMES, when I raise the point that I’m a huge Sea Shepherd Conservation Society supporter, I get accused of supporting terrorists (generally by people who are rigid ideologues or somehow connected with whaling and occasionally Japanese people who are diehard nationalists – sadly, it’s the whales that “die hard”.). I then get the tired old line trotted [...]
On April 25, the Long Reef shorebird counting team conducted the first post migration count on the reef. Data collected elsewhere in Australia indicated that there had been failed breeding in 2008 by a number of shorebirds which breed in the high Arctic, including Bar-tailed Godwits (the race Menzbieri, which visit the west coast of [...]
THE KIMBERLEY, one of Australia’s and the world’s last great wilderness regions is under threat from the imposition of a Liquid Natural Gas Hub and “Pilbara style” industrialisation. The size of this development will dwarf the town of Broome and will attract shipping (and their bilge water and threat of oil/diesel spills) into the pristine [...]
THE YELLOW SEA is formed by the section of China’s coast which tucks up into and then joins the long finger of land which is comprised of the People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Adjoining the Yellow Sea is a segment off its north-west called the Bohai Sea. [...]
THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM is not only a fantastic showplace of the amazing story of life on earth, both past and present, it’s also a centre for education, discovery and science.
Much of this science is based on work done on a vast array of specimens which are stored in what can be described as a “warehouse [...]
Many of you will be aware of the threats facing the Kimberley by the Western Australian government’s agenda of industrialisation for the region. If not, please visit www.savethekimberley.com and learn about the issues and please respond with one of our email protest letters.
This morning Hands off country posted a video on YouTube: “it’s a crab’s [...]
It is said that a person of goodness does good on the basis of personal policy, a person who is passionate does good to earn respect and a person of ignorance does good only to avoid punishment for doing wrong.
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