Nature

An invention dreamed up by a Kooralbyn pensioner to save injured kangaroos turned from dream to reality last week.  Scenic Rim Wildlife Rescue scored a…

Cactus thieves raided gardens in Ipswich earlier this year in search of valuable plants. But they weren’t the only ones pinching these prickly plants from…

Ipswich and the Scenic Rim have no immediate plans to follow the Gold Coast’s lead of buying up land to create wildlife corridors to save…

A few ‘daggy’ little patches of trees by the sides of roads on the Darling Downs could be the last hope for what scientists say…

The Australian Government has announced it will provide grants for local and regional activities led by Landcare groups to support bushfire recovery for fire-affected plant…

An invention dreamed up by a 66-year-old Kiwi pensioner in Kooralbyn and funded by a $31,000 grant will soon hit the highways of the Scenic…

Some are purple, some are cream. Some look normal, some straight out of a dream.  The region is experiencing a bloom of mushrooms so discombobulating…

Almost two-thirds of the deaths from venomous bites or stings in Australia were caused by bees and wasps and the remaining third by snakes. That’s…

A researcher who spent two nights last week slogging deep into the Main Range National Park in search of an endangered frog has returned with…

The ‘Cane Toad Challenge’ gives the pests a taste of their own medicine, using their toxins to kill their tadpoles.  Fifteen years of research led…

Jo-Ann Morris thought she had bought a slice of paradise when she and her husband moved into their bush block south of Boonah in 2017. …

Gardeners from across South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales will descend on Tamborine Mountain this weekend in search of dirt cheap plants.  That’s…