Earlier this year I had the privilege of heading off for a 10 day break to assist with animals east of Melbourne in the rolling green hills in part of our beautiful Great Dividing Range. . My main chore was … Continue reading
Category Archives: Environment
DEPI [Department of Environment and Primary Industry] are the protectors of our wildlife yet in the last 5 years. Approvals were given by DSE [prior to the name change to DEPI] to kill more than half a million of our … Continue reading
-from ANZCART magazine Researchers in Boston, Massachusetts have developed a solution that protects rat livers from freezing and could therefore potentially extend the transplant window for human organs. When a human donor organ becomes available, transplant surgeons have only about … Continue reading
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” (Martin … Continue reading
The sixth Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference, was held in Canberra mid-year [2008]. One of the presentations was on the introduced Indian Myna, now mostly referred to as the Common Myna, the damage it is causing in that area and what the … Continue reading
Melting ice The Antarctic ice sheet is melting at its fastest rate in history data shows. Three years of data from the European Space Agency’s Cryosat satellite shows the Antarctic ice sheet is losing 159 billion tones of ice a … Continue reading
The Brush-tailed Phascogale [Phascogale Tapoatafa], also known as a Tuan is classified in Australia as Uncommon, and Rare in Victoria. It is listed under the Flora & Fauna Guarantee Act, 1988. Under wildlife shelter permit conditions, operators are required to … Continue reading
The status of our fauna species comes under several categories, you need to note the status of any wildlife that comes into care as species listed from the Threatened status upwards should be reported to DEPI and always must be … Continue reading
Still on poisons, I wonder how many of us are unknowingly also guilty of causing death. Take owls for instance, at some time in their life most will eat rats and mice. Rats and mice eat the baits we put … Continue reading
In the middle of January this year [2014] there was a heat wave which, as well as stressing our human population, many species of animals were stressed as well. It was the first time in Bendigo since the Grey-Headed Flying-foxes … Continue reading