Early Australian manufacturing at our Yantabulla Reserve. The jump up country at Yantabulla has significant areas of weathered silcrete small boulders, almost perfect material for knapping stone tools by the Budjiti people. There are many flakes in this area while flaked rock is often found kilometers away on the margins of the Yantabulla wetlands. #stonetools #indigenousmanufacturing #silcrete #yantabulla #backofbourke #budjiti #nsw #australia 
Symmetry in nature. A full and flowing Darling River from our campsite about 50km upstream of Wilcannia. You look at this and realize how paddle boats plied the river, a highway in the landscape. Sadly with so much water extracted from the river, even modest flows such as this are now rare. We are slowly killing the arteries of our outback and the consequences for nature are disastrous. #darlingriver #riverlost #waterinthedesert #wilcannia #outbackriver #outback #outbackaustralia #outbacknsw #nsw #australia 
An old lightning struck tree on our Yantabulla Reserve. This ancient box tree sits on top of a sand dune. It is scarred from top to bottom by a lightning strike but fortunately lived to show the tale. #lightningstrike #lightningtree #backofbourke #yantabulla #outback #outbacknsw #nsw #australia 
Galvanized Burr and red sand on our Yantabulla Reserve. The Gal Burr has big spikes and awful burrs once it starts to set seed. Give it a few more weeks and no way you would think of walking through it! Fantastic habitat for small things that need to avoid predators. #galvanisedburr #redsand #australiandesert #yantabulla #westernnsw #australia #backofbourke #outback #outbacknsw #outbackaustralia 
The coolibahs are getting a really good drink. Our Yantabulla Reserve protects a large area of nationally endangered Coolibah-Black Box Woodland. With the recent flood the woodlands are all getting a really good watering but these woodlands sometimes have to go years without significant water. #coolibah #blackbox #endangeredecologicalcommunity #wetlands #wetland #wetlandconservation #backofbourke #yantabulla #outback #desertwetland #australia 
It’s been a wet summer on our Yantabulla Reserve northwest of Bourke and the grasslands are lush with new growth. The kangaroo populations were devastated by the 2019 drought but are now recovering. There is no shortage of food!!! #yantabulla #backofbourke #nswdesert #greendesert #nsw #australia 
Back Creek Swamp on our Yantabulla Reserve is a major bird breeding area. The latest flood has filled it again. Will be interesting to see what the birds decide to do! Yantabulla is around 150 km northwest of Bourke. #wetland #wetlands #australianwetlands #desertwetlands #yantabulla #waterbirds #backofbourke #australiandesert #nsw #australia 
The Warrego River Flood has finally arrived at our Yantabulla Reserve 150km northwest of Bourke. Yantabulla protects a large section of the Yantabulla Swamp, one of the most important waterbird breeding locations in the northern section of the Murray Darling. The swamp is usually dry but when the floods come it springs to life. In late 2019 the extreme drought and a lightning storm saw a significant section of the swamp burn. Wonderfully for an area that might see a flood every few years, this is the third flood in a bit over a year. Nothing helps recovery from fire more than water!! Photos by Greg Carroll #yantabulla #backofbourke #flood #wetlands #wetland #desertwetlands #outback #nsw #australia 
Tree Kangaroo rumble in the jungle. Just cleared some camera traps from our Cassowary Crossing Reserve on the Atherton Tablelands and came across a series of images of a pair of Lumholtzs Tree Kangaroos having a wrestle on the rainforest floor. Image blurred because of the 1/30 shutter speed of the camera but you certainly get the idea of the action! #treekangaroo #lumholtztreekangaroo #rumbleinthejungle #macropod #athertontablelands #queensland #australia 
Replanting rainforest on Cape York. This river flat on our Caloola Reserve was once rainforest but was cleared because of the rich alluvial soils. We are trying to reestablish the original Rainforest to provide continuity of habitat along the river. It is incredibly hot work in the very humid conditions of the wet season. So far this wet season we have got around 3500 trees in the ground and are aiming for another 10,000 next year. #worldrewildingday #readytorewild #rainforest #rainforestrestoration #capeyork #capeyorkpeninsula #queensland #australia #wildlifecorridor 
On #worldrewildingday a hardy group of seventy volunteers braved the wind and rain to plant another 2500 trees at our Misty Mountain Reserve on the Atherton Tablelands. That makes 10,000 trees in the ground so far this year taking our total on the site to over 22,000. These plantings support a nationally significant wildlife corridor joins two sections of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Wildlife include Cassowary, Lumholtzs Tree-Kangaroo, Green and Lemuroid Ringtail Possums and the Long-tailed Pygmy Possum. #readytorewild #rainforest #rainforestrestoration #treeplanting #worldheritage #wettropics #queensland #athertontablelands #australia 
What a wet green summer the NSW northwestern slopes are enjoying. Our Rockview Reserve has bushfires in both of the hot dry 2018-19 and 2019-20 summers. This year it hasn’t stopped raining, creek crossings are flooded and everything is a wonderful green, green, green. Sadly with climate change fire summers are likely to be the norm but we will take the rain any day! #climatechange #bushfirerecovery #northwesternslopesandplains #wetseason #green #nsw #australia 
Greater Glider at Bezzants Lease last night. Listed as Vulnerable to Extinction this beautiful animal is threatened by continued forest clearing and then last summers bushfires wiped out almost a third of its remaining habitat. Bezzants Lease was badly burnt in the fires and we had feared that it might have been rendered locally extinct. But a few weeks ago @faunaverse_poetry spotted six in the one night and last night, three of which this is one. Just so incredible that at least some survived such an horrendous event. To think that we are still clearing their habits is unimaginable. Surely we have cleared enough? Doesn’t our unique beautiful wildlife have a right to exist too? Photo by Alex Dudley. #australianwildlife #greaterglider #glider #newenglandtablelands #bushfirerecovery #threatenedspecies #nsw #australia 
Growing a rainforest on Cape York. The tropical monsoon rainforests on Cape York are extraordinary. Flooding rains for four months of the year, sometimes not a single drop from the sky for six months. Lush green forests full of lilies and orchids in the wet, sometimes without a single leaf in the dry. Sadly they are also sometimes cleared particularly on river flats. When we decided to replant cleared rainforest on our South Endeavour and Caloola Reserves we couldn’t find anyone who had tried to grow many of the key species in these forests. We also found that many of the seeds wouldn’t germinate when sent to nurseries in the wet tropics. The only answer was to build our own nursery and try,try and try again until we could find the right conditions for each seed type to germinate. This year we have done our first plantings in a project aimed at restoring continuity in the gallery rainforest along a cape york river. It is a challenging environment due to weed infestation. We have a big task ahead in controlling the prodigious rate of weed growth through the wet. But the trees are growing well and hopefully in just a few years their canopies will be big enough to shade out the weeds. #rainforest #dryrainforest #monsoonrainforest #growingarainforest #rainforestnursery #capeyork #capeyorkpeninsula #growingaustralianplants #northqueensland #australia #australianflora #australianrainforest #australianrainforestplants 
Another 2,500 trees planted at our aptly named Misty Mountain Reserve yesterday. By end March we will have planted over 22,000 trees in this nationally significant wildlife corridor joining the Herberton Range section of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area with the rest of the WHA. Despite the weather 52 volunteers from TREAT turned out to get the trees in the ground. Already Cassowaries, tree kangaroos and endemic wet tropics possums are using the corridor. #wildlifecorridor #wettropicsworldheritagearea #wettropics #treeplanting #athertontablelands #northqueensland #queensland #australia 
New Years Day Lagoon on Kings Plains. It is just that, a lagoon, in the dry season, but in the Wet it becomes quite a large river. In fact, it was once a much larger river. The Annan River now flows from the back of the wet tropics to the coast just south of Cooktown, but some thousands of years ago it flowed through Kings Plains to the Normanby and thence 200 km north to Princess Charlotte Bay. Geological tilting of the landscape has changed the course of several rivers and streams in the region. The lagoon has fantastic bird life but is also home to at least one large saltwater crocodile, definitely not the right place for @tyriestarrs inflatable bird hide!! #capeyork #capeyorkpeninsula #lagoon #annanriver #wetseason #queensland #australia