Victoria’s Threatened Possums and Gliders – A SWIFFT video-conference
Everyone loves a good acronym. And last month, I had the pleasure of being part of a seminar for aContinue Reading
Author: Kylie Soanes
Enjoy your PhD, don’t endure it
PhD students are a miserable bunch. Or at least, I’m worried that’s how we must come across to the rest of the world.
Have you met the neighbours?
Introducing two very, very cool little critters from south-east Australia that you might not have met yet.
The perks of peri-urban living
We had unlimited access to paddocks and bushland. Sure, it was weedy, and not exactly pristine. But that’s where we spotted the echidna.
Pretty pigeons on the trash heap
As ‘Melbourne kids’ we’d squeal with delight on road trips to our grandparents house whenever we spotted top-notch pigeons balancing precariously on the power lines.
My ugly lemon tree
Animals are resourceful and will find a way enjoy even the ugliest of gardens.
For the love of the urban safari
We don’t often appreciate the nature of urban areas. ‘Nature? What nature? No nature here. I live in the city’…
Larakins bouncing across the sky
The prehistoric cry rings out, like something from Jurassic park. I rush to the nearest window or out to the yard like a kid to the Mr. Whippy van. My cockatoos are coming!
Who’s who on the wildlife bridges?
E-tags for wildlife: helping us understand the success of crossing structures.
Conservation at the cross-roads
In August I had the absolute pleasure of hosting a road ecology symposium at the ICCB-ECCB, an international conference on conservation biology.
life on the verge 