Finding platypus is not easy – here’s what to look for and where to search Platypus are mystical creatures. One may be in a river or lake near you but you won’t see it; they are shy and secretive. They don’t want to be found. They come and go...
All about Spot-tailed (Tiger) Quolls, their threats and how to help them. What are quolls? Quolls are native marsupial carnivores, related to Tasmanian Devils, Antechinus, Phascogales and more distantly, to the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger). They are some of the largest...
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 (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...