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...
by Janine Duffy | June 1, 2020 | Conservation Projects, Far North Queensland, Wildlife
by Janine Duffy (most pics by James Boettcher) The bizarre, brassy and beautiful mammals of Australia’s north Queensland. There are many more mammals in Australia than most Aussies ever see. If you want to see some of our strangest ones, there’s no better place than...
by Janine Duffy | May 26, 2020 | Conservation Projects, Ningaloo WA, Wildlife
At first glance, the beaches of Ningaloo Western Australia look too clean. Sterile. The sand is so white you wonder if its already turned into marble. The water is the clearest turquoise glass. .. If there was an animal on that wild beach or in that water surely you’d...
by Janine Duffy | May 13, 2020 | Conservation Projects, Ningaloo WA, Wildlife News
by Janine Duffy I love Australia for her depth. You can spend a lifetime getting to know her, and she will always surprise you. The Cape Range, near Exmouth, Western Australia is a lovely, red-glowing low escarpment jutting out of the WA coast like a coat-hook. .....
