Nature

How do you take an unsightly thing that pongs and transform it into something whose fragrance and beauty people will pay for?  After 20 years…

One of Australia’s largest butterflies will have a new haven on Tamborine Mountain after hundreds of vines are planted early next year. The caterpillar of…

The latest DNA technology has brought Ipswich City Council closer to tracking and protecting the famously shy platypus throughout the city’s waterways. A five-year study…

A Wedge-tailed eagle recovering from a gunshot injury is now the latest attraction at Ipswich Nature Centre. Mirrigin was brought to the Queens Park animal…

Waterways in the Scenic Rim have continued to improve while those in the greater Ipswich area are only getting worse.  That’s according to the 2020…

Anglers will release thousands of Mary River Cod into Scenic Rim waterways in an effort to help the endangered fish bounce back from a horror…

A bizarre little creature only known to have existed in the Fassifern has been listed as the second most likely Australian snake or lizard to…

When we were primary school kids living on a farm at Coulson, we’d walk barefoot down to the Teviot Brook with our hydrophobic mum’s unfailing…

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Masses of Caper White Butterflies in a fly through of gardens, parks and roadways was reported from the Fassifern, Ipswich and Brisbane towards the end…

Drought brings death and despair. But for one endangered Australian mouse, it might also bring opportunity. That’s according to Dr Penn Lloyd, who’s just returned…

A few unexpected visitors have arrived on, and in, people’s doorsteps this month as snake season slithers into the region.  Basin Pocket resident Shirley Kliese told…