Wildlife Australia - Autumn 2002

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Return to Dryandra

Researchers, Tony Friend, Clare Anthony and Neil Thomas, from the Western Australian Department of Land Management have earmarked a rare patch of woodland for a species-saving colony of marsupials.

Bilby Bonanza

In her article, Colleen Sims describes how an ambitious project named 'Eden' will attempt to improve an old sheep grazing property (now part of Western Australia's Francois Peron National Park) to a point where many of its lost fauna, including the Greater Bilby, can be safely returned.

Kimberley Mood

Moments of time and space in one of Australia's most picturesque regions. Western Australia photographer, Steve Sadler captures the mood of the Kimberley in a beautiful series of images.

 

Big Mouth - Whale Sharks of Western Australia

Commercial Whale Shark watching has been happening for more than a decade. From its humble beginnings, it has grown to a $6 million a year industry. In his regular feature, Neville Coleman shows how it is now one of the most important eco-tourism events in Western Australia.

 

Is the Australian Mole a Supermole?

Antoni V. Milewski, an ecologist at University of Cape Town, explains how, in the scientific world, 'evolutionary convergence' has become a hop topic of discussion and research. It becomes more obvious why the Marsupial Mole is considered such an interesting example of this evolutionary phenomenon when this distinctively Australian animal is compared to moles in Europe and Africa.

 

Big Browns

Snake tales have a way of becoming greatly exaggerated with every telling. Rob Hobson uncoils a few fallacies to uncover what it means to be a BIG Brown in Queensland.

 

Nesting with Flare

Scientists monitoring a seabird colony near an operational gas field on Australia's northwest coast have discovered some surprising anomalies. It seems, as Andy Wildman discovered, that some of the birds at Varanus Island are doing surprisingly well.

Cyber Jungle

Marsupial Society of Australia

Animal Diversity Web Site

Anderson's Creek Primary School

Bagheera in the Wild

Whale Shark Research Group

Whale Sharks in Western Australia

CALM West Australia

Also in this edition:

Run Off, Wildlife Report, City Animals, EcoMedia, Book Reviews, Scratchings and Rustlings, WPSQ Update, Summer Skies, Zoom-In, Young and Wild, Homo Insatiable, Nature Watch, our new Swamp Cartoon and our regular environmental crossword.

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