Posts tagged: endangered species

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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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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Dr Denis Saunders holds a female Carnaby's black cockatoo chick © Katherine Howard / WWF-Aus

Dr Denis Saunders returns to Coomallo Creek

On a baking hot November day WWF-Australia President Dr Denis Saunders returned to Coomallo Creek, Western Australia, where more than 30 years ago he first started investigating the dramatic decline of Carnaby’s black cockatoos.

January 15, 2010
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