by Suzie Mier | Mar 18, 2021 | News
A full-grown Carnaby’s black-cockatoo chick looks up from the safety of its ‘cockatube’. Two chicks were hatched and successfully raised by their parents in artificial nesting hollows placed in remnant bushland near the Stirling Range this summer. Eggs laid in a third...
by Suzie Mier | Mar 18, 2021 | News
Watching Jeremy Spencer walk through the bush is a bit like an episode of CSI – South Coast. The dieback interpreter from Great Southern Bio Logic can trace the chronology of plant deaths as Phytophthora dieback moves through the landscape like a slow-moving...
by Suzie Mier | Mar 18, 2021 | News
“This is medicine, this is…..,” Larry Blight says as he crouches on the lakebed at Ballogup/Lake Pleasant View levering a rock out of the cracked clay. Larry joined ethno-archaeologist Paul Greenfeld and Menang-Noongar Elders at the lake near Manypeaks east of...
by Suzie Mier | Jan 7, 2021 | News
As the days heat up some of the country’s most elusive birds are beginning to emerge from their nesting mounds in the Great Southern. Rarely sighted and almost perfectly camouflaged, malleefowl chicks hatch within the warmth of up to 5m3 of composting leaf litter,...
by Suzie Mier | Dec 24, 2020 | News
The video celebrates the success of South Coast NRM’s Yakamia Creek project that will improve habitat value of the creek and the health of Oyster Harbour. Over the two years of the Yakamia Creek Fish Friendly Farms project, there has been 25 community engagement...