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Platypus : how to find one

Platypus : how to find one

by Roger Smith | December 30, 2020 | Coast Mountains Outback, Far North Queensland, Great Ocean Road, Maximum Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Journey East Gippsland

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...
How To Help An Endangered Tiger Quoll

How To Help An Endangered Tiger Quoll

by Janine Duffy | June 16, 2020 | Far North Queensland, Wildlife News

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...
A Rainforest Dove of Far North Queensland

A Rainforest Dove of Far North Queensland

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...
Mammals of Far North Queensland: Bizarre, Brassy & Beautiful.

Mammals of Far North Queensland: Bizarre, Brassy & Beautiful.

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...

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