Curious Kids: if trees are cut down in the city, where will possums live?
Curious Kids: if trees are cut down in the city, where will possums live? Kylie Soanes, The University of Melbourne IfContinue Reading
Category: Urban wildlife
Urban owls are losing their homes. So we’re 3D printing them new ones
A team of designers and ecologists have teamed up to find a way to make artificial nests more appealing to one of the city’s largest birds of prey: the powerful owl.
The threatened species in our urban jungle
This article was first published on Pursuit (University of Melbourne). You can read the original article here. It was aContinue Reading
Get back to noticing nature, with the Wildversity Spring Challenge
I am the kind of person who notices stuff. Not all stuff. Probably not if we need milk, or ifContinue Reading
Which threatened species share your neighbourhood?
I talk a lot (a LOT) about the fact that threatened species can be found in our cities and towns.Continue Reading
New job, new lab, new fun
How would you feel about spending your days learning all about threatened species? Or dreaming up creative ways that weContinue Reading
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’…
life on the verge 