Can someone guess where I took this photograph? … [Read more...] about Happy Easter, And
Wilderness
New Daintree Rainforest Website: Neil Hewett
HAVE you had a chance to check out the spectacular new Daintree Rainforest website? Magnificent beauty and extraordinary biodiversity presented through a gallery of images in full-screen format. The complexities of the oldest surviving rainforest … [Read more...] about New Daintree Rainforest Website: Neil Hewett
Holiday Reading: Emma Marris
Hi Jennifer, Longtime reader etc etc and I must thankyou for your always interesting blog. I could find no mention of Emma Marris and her new book 'The Rambunctious Garden' on there so I wondered if you were aware of it. I thought it would … [Read more...] about Holiday Reading: Emma Marris
Season’s Greetings
This brilliant red, waxy toadstool is the fruiting body of an inconspicuous fungus that thrives on leaf litter, rotting wood and soil in the rainforests of North Queensland when the weather starts to warm up... which is usually towards Christmas … [Read more...] about Season’s Greetings
A Note from the Daintree
Hello Jennifer, Tourism in the Daintree Rainforest is continuing to decline, partly because of the relative value of the Australian dollar. Recent upturns in the global economy have been met with a proportionate recovery in other parts of … [Read more...] about A Note from the Daintree
What is Wilderness (Part 12)
The chief executive of the National Parks Association of New South Wales, Andrew Cox, was reported in today's The Sydney Morning Herald saying that he would "die in a ditch" protecting national parks from commercialisation by the tourism … [Read more...] about What is Wilderness (Part 12)