Are you a big footed Australian?

If everyone on the planet lived like the average Australian, it would take a staggering 3.76 planets to support the world population! Confronting isn’t it? This statistic, released this week in WWF’s leading biennial Living Planet Report 2012, is a … Continue reading

May 17, 2012
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Global Embrace of Earth Hour 2012

Just over a month ago, at 8:30pm March 31, a record 152 countries and territories and more than 6,700 cities, towns and municipalities took part in the biggest Earth Hour event so far. A pretty inspiring result for a campaign … Continue reading

April 30, 2012
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A journey to change the mind of a climate sceptic

Late last year I found myself traveling around the world with one of Australia’s last remaining high-profile climate sceptics, former finance Minister Nick Minchin. I never expected to go on a journey with a politician who’s spent his career arguing … Continue reading

April 24, 2012
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Protecting our Frozen Planet

Returning to Antarctic waters on the Our Far South voyage, WWF Marine Advocate Bob Zuur reflects on protecting this unique – and changing – wilderness.   One hundred years ago Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. Fifty years ago … Continue reading

April 23, 2012
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A new home and world first micro-chipping for western spiny-tailed skinks

Campbell Jones, a farmer in the Wyalkatchem area, contacted me after he had seen an article in the Farmers Weekly about the work that the Healthy Bushland team (WWF, Wheatbelt NRM and Greening Australia WA), was doing to help a Bencubbin … Continue reading

April 18, 2012
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Black-flanked rock wallabies caught on camera

A hint of movement in the darkened rocks, a scratch in the dirt, a white flash in the hushed night: trapped! A shy black-flanked rock wallaby mother and her joey are caught in a freeze-frame, using one of the motion-trigger … Continue reading

April 12, 2012
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