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Joshua Wilson taught a computer to count birds, then gave it away
A researcher in Queensland has built a tool that reads drone photographs and counts every bird in them, and he has given it away to the world.
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Troy Warry takes the water apart and hands it back clean
A water scientist in central New South Wales has built a plant that takes contaminants apart rather than straining them out, and his town now gets to use the same water twice.
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Ken Nakajima drew this garden, and spring finishes it
Australia's largest Japanese garden sits in a country town in the central west of New South Wales, and this weekend it is celebrating its cherry blossom.
Conservation
Boodjamulla comes home to the Waanyi
Four hours north west of Mount Isa, a national park of emerald gorges and ancient fossils is Aboriginal land again, and the Waanyi rangers who care for it will keep the gate open for everyone.
People
Head, heart and hands: Kit Shepherd's seventeen years of growing with Transition Bondi
For seventeen years Kit Shepherd has kept Transition Bondi growing, one cafe scrap bucket at a time, with a pollinator corridor to Tamarama gully in her sights. Now that corridor is coming to her streets, and there is room for you.
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Painters by the Sea, Cronulla, this Sunday
Cronulla throws its spring party this weekend, a hundred market stalls and fifty food trucks from Friday night to Sunday, and on Sunday afternoon the painters set up their easels by the water, with the money raised going to Relay For Life.
Sustainable Living
Native food festival at Carriageworks this weekend
Finger limes, wattleseed, sea succulents and the people who grow them fill Carriageworks on Saturday and Sunday, with Kylie Kwong and Bruce Pascoe among the cooks and storytellers.
Innovations
On Groote Eylandt, a sea farm that cleans its own water
An Anindilyakwa owned sea farm in the Gulf of Carpentaria is growing sandfish in a closed loop where nothing is wasted, and training the island's own kids to run it.
Global Good News
Helen Asu's net found a fish lost for forty years
On the Sepik River, a fisherwoman's hand net did what four decades of expeditions could not: two spinach pipefish, last seen by science in 1985.
Global Good News
Otter families are back in the heart of Seoul
Twenty years of swapping concrete banks for soil, gravel and reeds has given the Han River something it had not had in living memory: otter parents raising pups in the heart of a city of nearly ten million.
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Sealers Cove is open again
Wilsons Promontory's most loved overnight walk is back, on a boardwalk rebuilt by crews who camped in the bush for months and lifted the whole thing thirty centimetres for the sea to come.
Conservation
In the Pilliga, five animals nobody had seen for a century are back
Bilbies, wallabies, bettongs, plains mice and bandicoots are digging the Pilliga again, and on 29 June the NSW Government signed on for ten more years of bringing them home.