One Degree for Koalas #1degree4KC
There’s something you can do right now that will help save a koala’s life. Go to your air-conditioner remote control and click the temperature button up once. Or, if you’re using a heater right now, click the temperature button down once. Easy, hey? This post is...
An explosion of Blue-bonnet Parrots at Mungo
Janine, Echidna Walkabout’s Co-owner and Director of Marketing & Wildlife Research recounts a journey through Mungo National Park Outback, NSW and how tiny fireworks of Blue Bonnet Parrots left an indelible imprint on her heart!
Welcome Swallows and the Mungo Woolshed
by Janine Duffy Mungo in late November is hot. By 11.30am walking outside is unattractive, no matter how captivating the big mob of Emus look in the heat shimmer. The historic rough-sawn bulk of the Mungo Woolshed promises relief, so I duck inside. Just above my head,...
Wombats are not cute
Wombats are impressive. Wombats are powerful. Wombats are highly intelligent. They are good-looking, yes, but cute is far too diminutive a word for Australia’s most powerful native. One night at Cape Conran in far East Gippsland, Victoria, I travelled out alone in...
Australia’s Megafauna
Big animals impress. But what are ‘big animals’ – elephants, rhinos, moose? How about kangaroos, emus, wedge-tailed eagles and goannas?