Hello cocky!

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...

Bush forensics in Ravensthorpe

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...

Secrets rise from the mud at Ballogup

“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...

Nesting with the malleefowl

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,...

Yakamia Creek: Albany’s living stream stars in new film

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...