Photos and Story by JAMES WOODFORD
Entire populations of some of Lord Howe Island’s unique wildlife are to be herded and brought into captivity for their safety.
Cattle and chickens will be slaughtered or sent away. Even though the threat is negligible, dogs will be muzzled and children brought close. Then for 100 days a poison will […]

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A swamp wallaby - one of the few native mammals surviving the fox invasion. Picture by Wil Allen
Story by JAMES WOODFORD
Having left Sydney five years ago, we have discovered that farms and forests are not just being over run by seachangers but also by a secret underworld of swarms of exotic pests.
In the past few […]

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Pictures and Story by JAMES WOODFORD
This week Tim Fletcher threw out 70,000 babies with the bucket water.
Fletcher’s job with the Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority, partly funded by the NSW Environmental Trust, is to help rehabilitate the Snowy – the nation’s most famous river.
In the past three weeks Authority staff, local landowners, aquaculture experts and […]

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Story and Pictures by James Woodford
See Stuart Cohen’s Flickr site - a fantastic collection of Brush Island photos from this week’s expedition
After a night trying to sleep amidst thousands of feathered revellers, seabird scientist, Nicholas Carlile, says it is as if Brush Island has just survived a huge, impromptu party.
Uninhabited by humans, the thickly-vegetated, 47-hectare nature […]

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