Environment

Portfolio

Return to romance

by Don Defenderfer

01 Jun 2025

Don Defenderfer’s connection with wilderness is a deeply personal one ...

Environment

The Holy Creed of Carbonus Rex

by Roger Chao

19 Oct 2024

In the land of Terra Firma, where the sun doth brightly shine, There arose a curious sect, with a doctrine most divine. No robes of white, nor beads of prayer, nor incense filled the air, But suits of grey and tongues of gold preached salvation...

Environment

Care for country: a beautiful approach to life

by Bert Spinks

19 Oct 2024

I joined a marine debris clean-up project, part of a crew of 27 who set out for the remote south-west coast to collect rubbish ...

Science

The fall and rise of the Pedder galaxias

by Premek Hamr

13 Jul 2024

Lake Pedder was unique, a jewel in the crown of what later was named the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area ...

Environment

Scourge purge

by Helena Gjone

24 Feb 2024

In July 2023, my eco-anxiety was triggered by one of Hobart’s warmest winters on record ...

Environment

In the dinosaurs’ garden

by Fiona Howie

22 Jan 2024

On lunawanna-allonah/Bruny Island lies a garden of primordial plants ...

Environment

New model for conservation

by Mandy McKeesick

21 Oct 2023

Bush Heritage ecologist Matt Appleby kneels in a paddock grazed by sheep and parts the native grasses to reveal small yellow flowers ...

Environment

Snakes in the coalmine

by Sonia Strong

23 Dec 2022

It’s a typical cool spring morning in Veronika Ross’ kitchen. She’s got a brew on the go and is smiling affectionately at the convalescing creature peering inquisitively at us from his enclosure – a tiny caramel and chocolate striped tiger snake named Garth ...

Environment

Blue gum blues

by Peter Grant

22 Jul 2023

There’s homesickness, and then there’s homesickness ...

Forty South

Possums – a postscript

by James Parker

07 Jun 2023

It started with a huge mother possum ...

Environment

Lobster tales: Dr Crayfish

by Terry Mulhern

07 Apr 2023

Premek Hamr is affectionately known as “Dr Crayfish” by the students of Upper Canada College in Ontario ...

Wilderness

That Furneaux feeling

by Sonia Strong

01 Apr 2023

I try to be worthy of this place by moving slowly, listening to the human and other inhabitants, and giving blood to the granite and insects who demand an offering ...

Wilderness

Lobster Falls

by Terry Mulhern

02 Jan 2021

From Deloraine, Mole Creek Road rises gradually until, nine kilometres west of town, you pass through the narrow gap between Gardners Ridge and Needles Ridge. Then the road falls gently towards Chudleigh. Although most will be oblivious to it, this is one of Tasmania’s great divides. This ridge line is the watershed between the Tamar catchment and the “western rivers”.

Environment

Lobster tales: Life underground

by Terry Mulhern

23 Jan 2022

We are no longer annoying mainlanders who talk about “one day” moving to Tassie. We are annoying mainlanders who are.