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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Burdon has joined the AW team as our new Program Coordinator.
Jess worked at the Alice Springs Desert Park before studying for a science degree and then working with the Central Land Council, most recently as Regional Land Management Coordinator for the Tanami Desert.
Welcome aboard Jess!

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 2d

Mammal Monday
AW’s Paul Gregory and Taylah Pitfield travelled to the Head of Bight Whale Watching Centre last month for a Whale of a Day. This annual event was attended by Yalata and Far West Coast ranger teams, Yalata Anangu School, Tullawon Health Service and NPWS
#wildoz

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 4d

To celebrate World Animal Day today, a look at some of the unique and wonderful animals that live in our region, from the enormous to the minuscule. Can you name them all?

#wildoz #worldanimalday

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 5d

The AW Landscape Board held their latest meeting at Maralinga Village, and board members and staff met with Oak Valley Rangers to discuss the new Landscape Plan for 2026-31.
A tour of the nuclear test site was a powerful reminder of the importance of working together to protect Country and culture.

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 8d

The new feral predator traps set on the Yalata coast by AW and Yalata Rangers are attracting some curious cats and foxes. To begin with the traps are wired open so the ferals have a chance to get used to them. A Mitchell’s hopping mouse also comes along for a look.
#wildoz #ferals

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 10d

Scaly Sunday.
This spectacular dragon was spotted on a recent fauna survey. Central bearded dragons vary in colour from grey to shades of brown, orange and yellow, generally matching the colour of the soil where they live.

#wildoz #reptiles #dragons

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 12d

Friday flowers.
Enjoy some spring colour from the AW region – mulla mulla, swainsona, everlasting daisies and calandrinia. These beauties are all at risk from buffel grass, which can transform entire ecosystems. That’s why we advocate for a national strategy to battle buffel.
#wildoz #nativeflora

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 15d

AW staff took a trip to the Yalata coast to check on the remote cameras monitoring the dunes for feral predators. We recently teamed up with Yalata Rangers to set up predator traps in the area, protecting the hooded plovers. These cameras show that foxes are active along the coast.
#wildoz #ferals

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 16d

The NRM Regions Australia National Knowledge Conference was held in Cairns last week.
AW was represented by Brenz Saunders, Kim Krebs and Adam Wood. Brenz spoke on a panel discussing Indigenous leadership and Kim delivered a presentation on the need for a national strategy on buffel grass.

AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 19d

At only about 2.5 cm long and weighing less than a gram, bogong moths can migrate 1,000 km to Australia’s alpine region each spring! Help scientists track the bogong moths and learn how to protect them via @ZoosVictoria’s Moth Tracker.

https://www.zoo.org.au/moth-tracker/

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 20d

South Australia’s landscape boards recently celebrated five years of community-driven care for our land, water and nature.
Find more about the wins and what's happening next: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/blog/celebrating-five-years-of-landscape-care-in-south-australia

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 20d

Thursday Birdsday!
The spiny-cheeked honeyeater is widespread across Australia. As the name suggests, they eat nectar, but will also dine on small lizards, spiders, insects and fruit.

#wildoz #birdsof Australia #birds

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 23d

Mammal Monday
This curious dingo was spotted on a recent field trip, coming close to camp to watch everyone packing up. Dingoes are an important animal in our region, ecologically and culturally.
#wildoz #dingo

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 24d

Scaly Sunday
This beautiful delma was caught in our recent fauna survey at Immarna. While it may look like a snake, it’s actually a legless lizard.

#wildoz #reptiles #lizards

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 28d

Weedy Wednesday
A powerful piece from the Invasive Species Council calling for the recognition of buffel grass as a national priority.
https://www.austrangesoc.com.au/news/a-boon-and-a-curse-why-a-national-reckoning-with-buffel-grass-is-overdue-richard-swain-and-reece-pianta/

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Sep 7

Researchers say their new study shows that dingoes are a distinct species from domestic dogs, and they should be given a new scientific name.
https://theconversation.com/dingoes-are-not-domestic-dogs-new-evidence-shows-these-native-canines-are-on-their-own-evolutionary-path-262938

#wildoz #dingo

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Sep 3

Spring is here and the sun is shining, how’s the view from your desk?
Fieldwork can be tough, but it definitely has its advantages! Just another day in the office for the AW team.

#wildoz

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Sep 1

Blind bugs below!
The karst cave systems of the Nullarbor are home to some very unusual creatures. The world’s only known eyeless wasp is one of the more remarkable finds.
#wildoz

Nullarbor cave expedition unearths world's only known eyeless wasp

An eyeless wasp is just one of several new cave-dwelling invertebrates discovered within the proposed boundary of a massive renewable energy project.

www.abc.net.au

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wildfires put tjakura at risk.
23 years of data has shown that fire has a major impact on the desert skinks. Tjakura nests are much more likely to be found where the spinifex has not burned for a long time.
#wildoz #lizards
https://nesplandscapes.edu.au/2025/07/16/wildfires-put-rare-lizard-at-risk/

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Aug 26

Buffel is a wicked problem.
Procrastination is not the answer and will only lead to more division and more environmental damage. We need to treat buffel as a resource AND as a weed, depending on where it’s growing, says ecologist John Read.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/australia/buffel-grass-control/

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Aug 25

Stuck on you.
Why do these vehicles in Canada have AW stickers on them?
AW’s Ecologist Brett Backhouse has been in Canada as part of a group of Australian firefighters helping battle blazes in remote forests in Alberta and spreading the word about AW while he’s at it.

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Aug 24

AW staff are busy in the field, and behind the scenes there’s plenty going on, from scoping weather station sites and connecting kids with Country, to fighting foreign fires and farewells to old friends. Read all about it in Palya: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/aw/news-publications/palya

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Aug 23

How to dress your dragon.
You can’t buy tiny jackets for bearded dragons off the shelf, so Melbourne University ecologist Kristoffer Wild learned to sew them himself.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-17/bearded-dragons-backpacks-research/105532670
#wildoz

Bearded dragons in backpacks reveal speed can be a killer

Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.

www.abc.net.au

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Aug 20

Dunnarts by the dozen! Plus pygmy possums, a native mouse mix and a large legless lizard, all part of AW’s fauna surveys.
Read more in the Winter 25 edition of Palya: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/aw/news-publications/palya

AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · Aug 20

Seeing a wild predator running straight towards you can be terrifying. Luckily for AW’s Les Mundy, the two predators in this clip are sandhill dunnarts – only 40-50g. The third animal in this clip is a Mitchell’s hopping mouse, which also seemed to home in on Les.

#wildoz #dunnarts
#NHT

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