Stories


Craig Allen
We spent a chilly morning setting mist nets in the scrub, and then carefully extracting some of the most delicate little featured creatures imaginable: weighing, measuring, banding and then releasing them.

Adam Searle and Jonathon Turnbull
Moments after play is resumed, however, the pitch is invaded, and the game is paused... On this occasion, the pitch-invader gets particularly lucky and is allowed off scot-free.

Jacob Perrott
As the first rays of light reach the moist leaves of the Gum trees, Eucalypts, and various grasses, the water molecules get excited and leap into the cool crisp air.

Ilya Fomin
She-oaks grow easily on desperately poor soils, so they were introduced to many countries... The catch, called allelopathy, was realised later: she-oaks release certain chemicals, which suppress other plants.

Chloe De Freitas
When we first moved into our apartment, we were delighted to discover there were a number of resident bush turkeys that helped landscape the garden. We soon found that this maintenance extended to our balcony...

Allen Morris
...the beautiful wailing sound that echoes across the coastal landscape when a flock of yellow-tailed black-cockatoos first appear in the sky above...

Philipp Hummer
Without fungi, there would be nothing...as a citizen scientist, every walk feels like an adventure.

Indiana Rivers
But this encounter was something rather special, I saw tiny baby snails and mighty adult snails.

