Camera Traps - June 2020 The data collected from Camera Traps over the month of June 2020 may have been skewed by human activity for extensive trail maintenance. Nevertheless, the month's tally accrued 50-cassowaries, 18-dingoes and 82-feral pigs. As aggregated percentages, cassowaries were down at 80% of the monthly average, dingoes were up [...]
Camera Traps - May 2020 Apart from a brazen Brush Turkey - Alectura lathami (J.E. Gray, 1831), determined not to be excluded from the month's tally, the greatest delight in the data collected from the Camera Traps - May 2020, was the Bennett's Tree Kangaroo - Dendrolagus bennettianus (De Vis, 1887), captured [...]
Camera Traps - April 2020 Collecting data from the Camera Traps - April 2020, was as informative as it was therapeutic. Getting back into the jungle, after weeks of post-operative convalescence and collecting from twelve widely-dispersed camera traps, is not a trivial undertaking. Truth be told, my wife Angie did the majority [...]
Camera Traps - March 2020 Another technical fault was revealed in the Camera Traps - March 2020 and yet the month captured 70-cassowary images, 264-feral pigs and 10-dingoes in total. Cassowary sightings fell by 48 from February's sightings, whilst feral pigs increased by 84 and dingoes by 7. All surviving cassowary chicks from [...]
The first episode of Sir David Attenborough’s new series commenced in the heart of the world’s longest surviving rainforest. Here, Big Bertha, Grand Dame of Cassowaries, reigns supreme. She is almost 2-metres in height when she pumps herself up to her full height to impress or to defend her domain. The vision of stately old-growth [...]
A STRAY LIANA - OUT NOW! This beautiful book - A Stray Liana - containing three-hundred-and-forty-five-pages, three-quarters of which are spectacular photographs, chronicles an odyssey spanning more than thirty-years, through some of Australia's most remote and traditional Indigenous homelands and into the heart of the world's oldest rainforest. In Australia’s tropical north-east, [...]
Inspired by the name of the wolf 'Two-socks' in the film 'Dances with Wolves', this young male dingo’s name 'No socks' was abbreviated to 'NOX', when he arrived towards the end of a very wet January, probably evicted from the litter, looking saturated and crestfallen. In the way of dingoes in the wild, he is [...]
Protection through partnership Protection through Partnership has been the World Heritage mantra since 1988. What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located. A federally imposed international [...]
Living with Cassowaries - Part 2 Big Bertha has become accustomed to public admiration. She was first described as The Grand Dame of the Daintree, in the Port Douglas Mossman Gazette and her image was distributed to readers across Tropical North Queensland. Standing tall, with her head in line with her massive feet, [...]
The art of camouflage Daintree Rainforest showcases the art of camouflage and is renowned as the World’s longest surviving rainforest. This claim is based on the number of families of primitive flowering plants called Angiosperms that remain today. However, the enormity of this claim is dwarfed by the intricacy and variety of [...]
