Conservation
How lucky we are, to look after each other and the marine life, together.
Once a year on Bonaire, divers, snorkelers, dive shop staff and people who simply live there spend a morning tending the island's underwater coral nurseries, then come ashore for a party.
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.
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.
In July the world's Red List moved the numbat from Endangered to Near Threatened, after forty years of work by scientists, Perth Zoo and volunteers who count numbats from a slow car and raise the money at bingo nights.
Associate Professor Stewart Nicol has spent more than forty years with echidnas. His review of decades of research finds one species living five quite different lives, and that matters for every carer and zoo in the country.
Off the Coral Sea, seabird islands have just been found healthy from end to end. Behind them, Parks Australia is writing six new plans for every Commonwealth marine park, and the public window is open until 4pm on Wednesday 30 September.
Two voyages to the seamounts around Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands brought home more than a thousand kinds of animal, and 149 of them had never been seen by science.
In the far west of Victoria, a small trust asked its supporters to help buy a drained wetland and bring the water back. They did it in 2025, then did it again this winter, and a flower thought lost from the district turned up in the reeds.
On 1 July, five new marine reserves came into force along the coast south of Dunedin, three hundred and eight square kilometres of sea where nothing is taken, and Kāi Tahu rangers now share the keeping of them.
Tallaganda lost many of its old hollow trees in the fires. Scientists hung 120 insulated boxes in their place, greater gliders moved in and raised joeys, and now men's sheds are building the next batch.
Where the Lachlan River spreads into reed beds and red gum forest before it meets the Murrumbidgee, 34,000 hectares of wetland now belong to the Nari Nari Tribal Council, bought with a $15 million loan and twenty five years of patience.
