Nature Notes: starting a zoo & art outdoors

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Amanda De George

Mar 22 2023

Sculpture in the Garden

I’m so excited for this! Wollongong Botanic Garden is hosting its biggest exhibition yet with 25 sculptures from local, national and international artists. I’m hoping to get along in the next few days and I’ll report back next week.

The exhibition runs until the 30th April.

For more details head to the Garden's website

'I started a zoo'

Shellharbour City Libraries have announced their nature talk for April and it sounds not to be missed!

Veterinarian David Butcher will detail all of his adventures (and misadventures) of starting the Taronga Western Plains Zoo.

Bookings are essential.

More details here

Happy National Eucalypt Day to the Grey Ironbark and other outstanding habitat trees

Last Sunday 23rd of March was National Eucalypt Day. There are events being held throughout March, right around Australia, to celebrate this absolutely iconic Australian group of plants. There are over 800 species of Eucalyptus, most of them only...

Emma Rooksby

March 2025

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Dear sea anemone, why are you so hard to pronounce? Also, why do you look like an anus?

I found out this week that I’ve been mispronouncing the name of one of my favourite marine creatures for my entire life. Comically, my husband, who is a high school teacher, corrected me after he himself was corrected by his 14-year-old student in...

Andy Lawrence

March 2025

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Beetling About: Try replicating Darwin’s experiments

I’ve just finished reading Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle (1839) and The Origin of species by means of natural selection (1859). Darwin was a man with an interest in explaining the world around him, collecting and studying anything and...

Chris Reid

March 2025

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Flipping fantastic: How ORRCA helps save our seals

When a human raises a hand in the waves, it’s a signal for help. When a seal raises a flipper, it’s usually cooling down, but many people assume it’s in distress and ring ORRCA, as the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in...

Genevieve Swart

March 2025