by Janine Duffy | November 15, 2020 | Conservation Projects, Koala News
Last year, every one of our tour visitors planted a tree for a koala. Without a spade, hammer or gloves. While our tourists were watching a Koala mum & joey canoodling, or swimming with Whale Sharks or photographing a Superb Lyrebird, we planted a tree for them....
by Janine Duffy | October 21, 2020 | Bird News, Conservation Projects
Saturday 17 October 2020 was the Global Big Day – a day where bird lovers worldwide are encouraged to go out and see as many birds as they can, with a mission to raise money for bird protection and conservation. Echidna Walkabout proudly contributed, both by sighting...
by Janine Duffy | September 24, 2020 | Conservation Projects, Koala News, You Yangs Region
by Janine Duffy Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera) is an Invasive Weed of National Significance (1) that has infested the You Yangs Regional Park, VIC since being introduced for erosion control in the 1940’s. It spread rapidly after the 1985 Lara bushfires, and...
by Janine Duffy | September 16, 2020 | Conservation Projects, Koala News, You Yangs Region
by Janine Duffy Long-term koala Phascolarctos cinererus population research in Victoria is rare, especially in the grassy woodlands away from the coast. The You Yangs Regional Park, just west of Melbourne, is home to a koala population in a dry woodland, and has been...
by Janine Duffy | July 2, 2020 | Conservation Projects, Ningaloo WA
We expected to see big fish. But, like so much in life, the unexpected became a highlight. At Ningaloo Reef, the little fish are a delight. Our friends at Exmouth Dive and Whalesharks always get swimmers in to the water for a snorkel on the reef first thing in the...
by Janine Duffy | June 10, 2020 | Bird News, Conservation Projects, Far North Queensland
High on a mossy branch, the bird watched me bumbling about on the rainforest track below. The light in a far North Queensland tropical rainforest is both brilliant and muted. You walk in near darkness, peering into shadows, to be dazzled by a beam of pure white...
