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By Sharron Ward 23 April 2021
Sometimes, saving a species means treating one animal at a time. The veterinarians at The Wildlife Hospital, Dunedin do just that, going small to go big by caring exclusively for native animals. Headquartered close to the wildlife-rich Otago Peninsula on New Zealand s South Island, the hospital is ideally placed to help where it s most needed. And with extinction threatening up to 80% of native wildlife, from kākāpō birds to sea lions, every mended bone and tended orphan could be the difference between a species thriving or dying out.
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Its super long fluffy tail gave it away The first time I saw one, I was leading a night walk and we heard this big crash in the eucalyptus trees above us, said Wendy Bithell of Vision Walks Eco-Tours as we strapped on night vision goggles, the nature guide s secret weapon for spotting nocturnal critters in the rainforests of northern New South Wales (NSW). We looked up and its super long fluffy tail gave it away, added Bithell. They re beautiful creatures to look at, but they re not as graceful as you d think they might be.
A solitary, tree-dwelling marsupial with big furry ears, large round eyes and a feather boa-like tail that lives in the eucalypt forests of eastern Australia, the greater glider is often described as a clumsy flying possum. Only cuter.
By Marian McGuinness 18 January 2021
The sunroof was open and the tinted windows were wound down. It was the closest I could get to soaking in the surrounds of desert and sea under the cloud-sailing sky.
I was on Indian Ocean Drive heading a couple of hours north of Perth to Lake Thetis, on Western Australia’s wildcard Coral Coast. Like an M C Escher drawing, the landscape morphs from market gardens to limestone-spotted scrub, soundtracked with clattering windmills drawing water from the Yarragadee Aquifer formed during the Jurassic era. There were white-trunked eucalypts and punk-haired grass trees sprouting in their thousands, flocks of black cockatoos in raucous flight and, sadly, dozens of kangaroos that had ended their days as roadkill.