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...Offering a range of tracks of varying difficulty, the Whitsunday Great Walk can take up to three leisurely days to explore in its entirety. Expect to encounter stunning rain forest, burbling creeks and diverse flora and fauna, from aromatic lemon-myrtle blossoms in summer to the striking blue Ulysses butterflies. There are two campsites en route, and all hikers are required to have a camping permit, available from the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service...
...Josh encounters the local fauna in "A Few Perfect Hours...
...snakes, birds, marsupials, bats - that lived anywhere up to 25 million years ago, when Riversleigh was a thriving rainforest in a cooler, wetter (and more southern) Australia. In so doing, the site has filled in what were once gaping holes in our understanding of the origins of modern Australian fauna. "Only in one or two places on the surface of our planet, in the course of the last three thousand million years, have conditions been just right to preserve anything like a representative sample of the species living at any particular time," naturalist Sir David Attenborough wrote in 1991. "Those...
...nice sideshow, but Archer and others are focused these days on something bigger. Reflecting on nearly three decades of Riversleigh exploration, "We were at first knocked out," he says, "by the simple, stunning biodiversity that we were finding." But in using Riversleigh to track the evolution of local fauna over millions of years, Archer began to grasp its predictive power. Riversleigh, he says, has changed ideas about which creatures should be seen as endangered. Here, the news is good, bad . . . and dire. The koala, for example, appears safer than conservationists had imagined. Its population and habitat have shrunk...
...Friendly Fauna As morning sun steals into the bar, Pickles, a gray wallaroo joey, wakes up on the pool table while her carer Nora Walsh, 18, does the accounts. Rescued after her mother was killed on the highway, Pickles now sleeps in a canvas tote bag instead of a furry pouch, drinks milk from a bottle as well as grazing on the well-watered lawn, and hops about the roadhouse as if it were native ground. What will happen when Pickles grows up the staff aren't sure, but at about 1 m and 20 kg, female gray wallaroos...