BUSHTRACKS 16/12/2019
Afterlife in the outback
University of Sydney researcher Emma Spencer is helping us understand how carcasses might be putting our native species at risk.
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Mulga is one of those unusual plants that sheep and cattle will eat, so it has disappeared from a lot of the old cattle properties. We’ve owned Naree for seven years now — before that it was a sheep station — and we’re trying to allow the Mulga here to regenerate but it takes a long time to grow, so in the meantime we need to keep feral goats, pigs and stray stock away.
There’s an area here on Naree that more closely resembles a healthy, natural Mulga woodland; there’s a thick overstorey and a lot of leaf litter underneath.
When we get a bit of water on Naree, like we had earlier this year, you get these carpets of new growth there – wildflowers, daisies.
It’s a step towards what we’re trying to achieve, which is old growth Mulga. It grows so slowly – and it’s such a harsh climate here – that it could be years before we get what we’re aiming for. At the moment you won’t see too many of the bigger Mulga trees around Naree, but we’ll get there with time.
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BUSHTRACKS 16/12/2019
University of Sydney researcher Emma Spencer is helping us understand how carcasses might be putting our native species at risk.
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Bunuba muwayi (country) is home to many bush plants and foods. Now, in a book called Yarrangi Thangaṉi Luṉdu, Mayi Yani-u, the Bunuba community have shared their knowledge of muwayi and the stories of their abundant, beautiful and lifegiving part of the world.
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Antia Brademann discovers that for the people who live and work on the upper Murrumbidgee River, it's more than just a waterway; it's a way of life that connects them all.
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At Naree Station Reserve, water is as precious and rare as gold. Our job: to make sure that when the water comes – either from the sky or down the rivers – the land is ready.
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