Bushie blog

This year’s fauna monitoring at Boolcoomatta, also termed Critter Camp, was another success with a great bunch of volunteers gathering to peer inside traps for a week.

Every year out at Arid Recovery Reserve, near Roxby Downs in outback South Australia, a small team of animal enthusiasts gather to conduct the annual monitoring of small vertebrates found inside...

New research led by the University of NSW and supported by Bush Heritage Australia has shown that overgrazing by overabundant native herbivores is degrading fragile ecosystems to the detriment of...

One of the most anticipated events on the calendar for our South Australian reserves is small vertebrate trapping. These surveys provide the opportunity to eyeball some of the lesser encountered...

The words of CJ Dennis finally came to fruition after two-and-a-half years of relentless dry weather and dust out at Boolcoomatta, with nearly 100mm of rain falling in the last few weeks. It’s easy...

In early August, research staff from South Australia’s Department for Environment and Water visited Boolcoomatta to conduct some Yellow-throated Miner trapping, as part of a project to investigate...

Feral goats are a major threat to our rangeland vegetation throughout Australia, where they roam the countryside largely unmanaged.

Gilgais act as a source for the capture of water after rainfall events. Even during these dry times, the response in vegetation after a small amount of rain is most prominent around these gilgais...

Eleven fox scats collected on Bon Bon Station Reserve by our South Australian Arid Rangelands Ecologist Graeme Finlayson late last year were sent away for analysis to get a better picture of what...

Purplewood trees provide habitat for species such as fairy-wrens and chirruping wedgebills and are a host for other important plants such as mistletoe. The ‘Purplewood Project’ was established to...

On Friday 26th April, much to the delight of dedicated long-term volunteers, Tony and Meredith Geyer, a female Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby with a large joey was photographed on Eagle Rock just prior...

My early days as a wildlife ecologist were spent driving around spotlighting on the back of a ute in the Murraylands of South Australia, chasing down Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats to learn what we...