Conservation

After spending years working in and around tropical rainforests that have experienced everything from selective logging to hurricane damage to agricultural abandonment,…

The wildlife corridors of tropical north Queensland exist more as a patchwork of necessity than as any continuous, protected pathway. After spending…

Spend enough time working in or studying tropical rainforests, and you stop thinking of them as backdrops. They become something closer to…

Spend enough time in recovering forests, and you start to notice the birds before you notice much else. They arrive in waves…

Australian rainforests are among the most efficient carbon storage systems on the continent, though the mechanisms at work are less visible than…

Anyone who has spent time in a rainforest notices the contradiction immediately. The canopy towers overhead, dense and impenetrable. The forest floor…

After spending years tracking animal movements across fragmented landscapes in eastern Australia, I’ve come to recognise that the difference between a thriving…

Spending time in Australia’s tropical rainforests over the past fifteen years has meant watching a slow but unmistakable shift in how these…

The Wet Tropics of Queensland became a World Heritage Area in 1988, and the designation wasn’t ceremonial. After spending time moving through…