Category Archives: Western Australia

Close up of 2 baby spiny-tailed skinks, Wheatbelt, Southwest Australia Ecoregion © Mike Griffiths

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 wallaby sensor camera Wheatbelt © Phil Lewis and Mike Griffiths / WWF-Aus

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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Western Spiny-tailed Skink thumbnail

Helping save the endangered western spiny-tailed skinks

Due to one farmer’s keen observation skills and his love of nature, a small population of the endangered western spiny-tailed skink, Egernia stokesii badia survive in their hollow log home. Tony Gillett, a farmer in the north-eastern Wheatbelt had been … Continue reading →

February 20, 2012
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Bee orchid (antelope orchid c. discoidea) © Stuart Whisson

Australian wild flowers for Valentine’s Day

To celebrate Valentine’s Day the staff at WWF-Australia wanted to share some of the more stunning photos of wild flowers from our diverse, vast country. All these photos were taken in the remarkable Southwest Australia Ecoregion (SWAE) which is one … Continue reading →

February 14, 2012
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© John Lauri

Calling all Citizen Scientists and cockatoo enthusiasts

The University of WA has just launched a brand new Carnaby Tracker project. Dr Nicola Mitchell has put a call out to the general public to encourage them to use the new website as a way of alerting the University … Continue reading →

May 28, 2010
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Boab tree, Kimberley coast © Aleks Terauds

Another language, another land, another Australia

Within WWF-Australia, Tanya Vernes lives in the most remote region of us all. Up in the Kimberley it is almost like another world, with its own customs, lifestyle and even – as she explains – its own language.

March 04, 2010
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