The Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo is very large and very loud. It makes no bones about its whereabouts, gadding about in flocks of boisterous screeching friends. In flight these birds look like they’re flapping in slow motion. Telling males from females
Not so long ago, the so-called fairy pools near Granite Bay were a local secret. Then everything changed. Suddenly they exploded on social media, and visitors swarmed to the natural wonder, enthusiastically encouraged by the local tourism sector. The result
Australia has four species of Pardalote, and they occur nowhere else in the world. Here in Noosa, we enjoy both the Spotted Pardalote and the Striated Pardalote. They are only the size of a human thumb, around 8-10cms long and
There are numerous historical examples of how the once male-dominated world of biological sciences imposed its gender bias onto the animal kingdom. One only has to go back a couple of decades to find examples where scientists were blind to
How do you kill a town? With apathy, self-interest, bad planning plus a heavy-hitting developer with very deep pockets. When I was elected to the amalgamated Sunshine Coast Council in 2012, the Cooroy Chamber of Commerce were seeking to increase
The Azure Kingfisher is a dazzlingly beautiful creature. That’s one reason why I just can’t seem to stop myself from photographing them. Mind you, this is a very shy bird that doesn’t like to be watched, so getting a good
The great irony for tourism destinations goes like this: the more you make a place wonderful, both to live and visit, the more you attract people that will ultimately undermine the very qualities that make the location so appealing.
Brush-turkeys were hunted for food in the Great Depression and nearly disappeared. My 1992 edition of The Australian Museum’s Encyclopedia of Australian Animals lists these creatures as “possibly endangered”. To anyone living in Noosa, such a suggestion seems absurd. Brush-turkeys
What’s the strongest creature in the world? The gorilla I hear you suggest? Or perhaps the elephant, or maybe even the humble ant? Nope, it’s the Rhinoceros Beetle. They are reportedly capable of lifting 850 times their own body weight,
Magpie Geese and Black Swans regularly build large nests amongst the reeds in the shallow waters. Along the shoreline I frequently see turtles, water dragons, eastern grey kangaroos, and even the occasional swamp wallaby.
The Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo is very large and very loud. It makes no bones about its whereabouts, gadding about in flocks of boisterous screeching friends. In flight these birds look like they’re flapping in slow motion. Telling males from females
Not so long ago, the so-called fairy pools near Granite Bay were a local secret. Then everything changed. Suddenly they exploded on social media, and visitors swarmed to the natural wonder, enthusiastically encouraged by the local tourism sector. The result
Australia has four species of Pardalote, and they occur nowhere else in the world. Here in Noosa, we enjoy both the Spotted Pardalote and the Striated Pardalote. They are only the size of a human thumb, around 8-10cms long and
There are numerous historical examples of how the once male-dominated world of biological sciences imposed its gender bias onto the animal kingdom. One only has to go back a couple of decades to find examples where scientists were blind to
How do you kill a town? With apathy, self-interest, bad planning plus a heavy-hitting developer with very deep pockets. When I was elected to the amalgamated Sunshine Coast Council in 2012, the Cooroy Chamber of Commerce were seeking to increase
The Azure Kingfisher is a dazzlingly beautiful creature. That’s one reason why I just can’t seem to stop myself from photographing them. Mind you, this is a very shy bird that doesn’t like to be watched, so getting a good
The great irony for tourism destinations goes like this: the more you make a place wonderful, both to live and visit, the more you attract people that will ultimately undermine the very qualities that make the location so appealing.
Brush-turkeys were hunted for food in the Great Depression and nearly disappeared. My 1992 edition of The Australian Museum’s Encyclopedia of Australian Animals lists these creatures as “possibly endangered”. To anyone living in Noosa, such a suggestion seems absurd. Brush-turkeys
What’s the strongest creature in the world? The gorilla I hear you suggest? Or perhaps the elephant, or maybe even the humble ant? Nope, it’s the Rhinoceros Beetle. They are reportedly capable of lifting 850 times their own body weight,
Magpie Geese and Black Swans regularly build large nests amongst the reeds in the shallow waters. Along the shoreline I frequently see turtles, water dragons, eastern grey kangaroos, and even the occasional swamp wallaby.