| WILDLIFE AUSTRALIA Magazine - Autumn 2003 |
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Altered environments: the changing face of urban wildlife
Once upon a time, we visited wild places to see wildlife: kangaroos in the bush, possums around the campfire and parrots in the national park. People did not think of cities as being habitats for wildlife, and for most species they were right!
Over the past few decades, however, things have been changing, sometimes spectacularly, in suburbs around the world. Our regular columnist, Darryl Jones, considers the relationships and attitudes about city wildlife. |
| FEATURES |
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| Fifteen years of paperwork - wildlife at the mill |
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 What is a picture worth? At this site, so far, it's at least 24 butterfly, 16 amphibian, 11 reptile, six mammal and 206 bird species.
Join Saren Starbridge for this look at the environmental work done by Amcor and its employees at their Petrie paper mill to protect this unique 'Land for Wildlife' site. |
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| A language of friendship - three women linked by wildflowers |
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 Kathleen MacArthur, feisty conservationist, painter and promoter of Queensland wildflowers, co-founded this magazine.
Louise Saunders is a talented botanical artist with a growing interest in conservation.
Fellow artist Rosemary Opala talks about her friendship with both women. |
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| Gallery Big 4-0 |
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 Wildlife Australia Magazine celebrates a 40th anniversary with a glorious bouquet of native plants and fungi, thanks to some terrific botanical artists.
Katherine Syme, from Western Australia shares her fascination for fungi; David Mackay, now based in NSW who worked for 10 years as botanical illustrator at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney; Jean Dennis travels Australia in search of all known species of little studied genus Brachychiton; Helen Fitzgerald, has illustrated five books on Australian flora and fauna; Lauren Black works to inspire people to protect and respect Tasmania's special vegetation; Jan Acton grew up in remote western Queensland, but now paints the flora around her property in southeast Queensland; Jenny Phillips is founder and director of the Botanical Art school in Melbourne. |
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| One to a million: mapping Australia's tropical savannas |
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 In 2001, Australia's Tropical Savanna Co-operative Research Centre released a 1:1,000,000 scale digital vegetation map plus a printed map and report on this northern part of Australia.
Join Dr. Ian Fox as he takes Wildlife Australia behind the scenes of a stunning landscape, an important resource and a marathon co-operative project. |
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| The Emu is not an Austrich |
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 Big bird - looks like an Ostrich... this is a common description of Australia's avian icon, the Emu. Superficially, it's true. Both are ratites, a group of large flightless birds that includes rheas, cassowaries and kiwis, but while there are similarities, Antoni Milewski looks at the surprising number of differences between these two creatures.
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| Also in this edition |
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City Animals, EcoMedia, Scratchings and Rustlings, WPSQ in Action, Autumn Skies, Take Only Pictures, Young and Wild, Nature Watch, Swamp Cartoon and our regular environmental crossword.
Subscribe to Wildlife Australia today - your subscription helps many worthwhile wildlife projects and contributes to a successful education campaign that has been an effective voice for Australian wildlife since 1963. |
