Australia's Wild Heart: The Dingo
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Gregory Andrews
#FloraAndFaunaFriday: A national icon with a real ecological job to do
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Dingoes are Australia’s wild heart.
They’re native.
Culturally significant.
Apex predators with a real ecological job to do.
Also: the “they’re all hybrids anyway” line isn’t supported by the latest genetics.
New #FloraAndFaunaFriday post.👇🏽
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This is what “functional extinction” looks like.
Still here. But only just. Australia’s Orange-bellied parrot.
Read the full story.👇🏽
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#FloraAndFaunaFriday #OrangeBelliedParrot #Biodiversity
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The Grassland Earless Dragon has no external ears and rents wolf-spider burrows. Small, shy, and hanging on in our last native grasslands. Meet it here 👇🏽 #FloraAndFaunaFriday
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On #BlackFriday, most Aussies know Kim Kardashian’s latest drop, but not our own Golden Bandicoot, which is rarer than diamonds.
Let’s redirect attention and so-called “savings” to what really matters.
Read and share.👇🏽
#FloraAndFaunaFriday
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Cars Are the New Megafauna
#FloraAndFaunaFriday: how Australia has swapped wombats for Hiluxes
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Lord Howe Island’s endangered Woodhen is back from the brink after the island’s bold rodent eradication.
Nature is rebounding and I’m heading back there next week to volunteer.
Read more here.👇🏽
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#FloraAndFaunaFriday: Lord Howe's Woodhen - Flagship for a Brave Island
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The Tasmanian Devil isn’t originally just Tasmanian!
Devils once roamed in mainland Australia too. And could again one day!
Read more in my latest #FloraAndFaunaFriday post.👇🏽
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Once extinct on the mainland, Eastern Bettongs are thriving in Canberra thanks to rewilding at @MulligansFlat.
They’re tiny macropods with monkey-like tails and big ecological impact. Read more👇🏽
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#FloraAndFaunaFriday #Rewilding #CaringForCountry
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Meet Australia’s cutest marsupial.
With only about 1,000 left out in the wild, Numbats are rarer than China’s Giant Panda.
Read more in my #FloraAndFaunaFriday blog post.👇🏽
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Gentle Giants of the Deep - Grey Nurse Sharks
Gregory Andrews📷
🦈🌊 #FloraAndFaunaFriday, underwater edition!*
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With their badass teeth, Grey Nurse Sharks might look man eaters. But they’re actually the Labrador dogs of our seas.
Read more here in my latest #FloraAndFaunaFriday post.👇🏽 www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/gentle-...
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Meet Australia's Wedge-tailed Eagle. It’s bigger, more powerful and smarter than the American Bald Eagle.
And its females are the ones in charge. Maybe there’s a lesson there for Trumpism.
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Meet Australia’s Mallee Emu-wren - a tiny, endangered bird that weighs less than a chocolate frog and calls mallee woodlands its home.
Their survival depends on climate action, fire management habitat protection.
#FloraAndFaunaFriday #Nature #Australia👇🏽 www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/flora-a...
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