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TN103 Australian conservationist Miranda Gibson

A conversation with Miranda Gibson, an Australian conservationist who is protesting – in a unique and remarkable way – the clearcut felling of Tasmania’s old growth eucalypt rainforests. On the 14th of December 2011 Miranda climbed a rope to the top of a tree on the slopes of Mount Mueller in Southwest Tasmania and vowed to stay there until the forest was protected: which means that on the 19th November 2012, the day this podcast was recorded, she had already spent 340 days 60m above ground…

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Win a ‘Wing and a Prayer’ DVD from Bird-o.com

Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo: On a Wing and a Prayer

Excellent Aussie birding/conservation website Bird-0.com is giving away five copies of Wildlife filmmaker Leighton de Barros'

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CADS: Help ban ‘recreational’ duck shooting in Victoria, Australia

It's utterly beyond my comprehension why anyone would want to kill a duck as it flies towards them, rocketing through a blue sky, beautifully and perfectly adapted to

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Australia: Rare cockatoos now face starvation threat

This one article, by Katie Robertson of PerthNow which also owns the photo above, perfectly sums up the firestorm facing so many birds today: human population growth

LYREBIRD film flapping its feathers ‘down under’

In March 2010, Balangara Films, an independent production company in Melbourne, Australia, started developing a little social/nature documentary film “The Message of the Lyrebird”.

Mark Barter, Champion of Yellow Sea Conservation: a Tribute

It is with much sadness that we learned that Mark Barter passed away yesterday (November 21st) after a long illness. Mark made an outstanding contribution

Birding Australia’s Northern Territory – Day Five

My colleague, Digital Spring's Rob Jolliffe, is in Australia's Northern Territory, enjoying the birding trip of a lifetime courtesy of Tourism NT.

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Birding Australia’s Northern Territory – Day Four

My colleague, Digital Spring's Rob Jolliffe, is in Australia's Northern Territory, enjoying the birding trip of a lifetime courtesy of Tourism NT.

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Birding Australia’s Northern Territory – Day Three

My colleague, Digital Spring's Rob Jolliffe, is in Australia's Northern Territory, enjoying the birding trip of a lifetime courtesy of Tourism NT.

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Birding Australia’s Northern Territory – Day Two

My colleague, Digital Spring's Rob Jolliffe, is in Australia's Northern Territory, enjoying the birding trip of a lifetime courtesy of Tourism NT.

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