Yellow Bittern hysteria

I am no photographer and sadly I do not have the anything like the financial capacity to go chasing after rarities like this, so I am not involved and I am not getting involved in criticising people here. However it does seem to me to be a bit extreme, alarmist and overly accusing and of … Read more

Yellow Bittern hysteria

Following Sandra Gallienne’s claim, based on a ‘reliable witness’, there is beginning something like a witch hunt, with calls for naming and shaming and so on. As someone who was there I saw no inappropriate behaviour. I have sent the following to Sandra:  Hi Sandra  I don’t think what you’ve written is really accurate and … Read more

Cats, transformer weeds and cane toads

Sorry for the delay in answering – I’ve not been well. Here in the NT cats appear to act in synergy with too frequent and destructive fire that destroys under storey. Destructive fire is fuelled by weedy grasses such as gamba, mission and buffel grass. These transformer species were introduced as pasture or contaminants in … Read more