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...decade, says Mooney. ?If something isn?t endangered or threatened, no one wants to spend any money on it,? he says. ?A lot more fundamental monitoring used to be done - and without it, you get caught with your pants down.? Gordon Grigg, professor of zoology at the University of Queensland and a member of the Commonwealth?s Threatened Species Scientific Committee, has been monitoring kangaroos since 1974. He says long-term monitoring usually happens only if a species is commercially harvested, a pest or attracts the interest of scientists or hobbyists. Grigg?s colleague Tony Pople, a population ecologist, agrees...
...Just 45 minutes from the raucous theme parks and gaudy casinos of Queensland's Gold Coast is one of Australia's best-kept secrets and possibly its finest distiller. The Tamborine Mountain Distillery, tel: (61-7) 5545 3452, uses a myriad of organically grown fruits and botanicals?such as jaboticaba, raspberry, pink grapefruit, wild peppermint, melon and lemon myrtle?to make an award-winning range of spirits, sold in hand-painted bottles...
Just 45 minutes from the raucous theme parks and gaudy casinos of Queensland's Gold Coast is one of Australia's best-kept secrets - and possibly its finest distiller. The Tamborine Mountain Distillery, tel: (61-7) 5545 3452, uses organically grown fruits and botanicals - such as raspberry, pink grapefruit, wild peppermint, melon, jaboticaba and lemon myrtle - to make an award-winning range of liqueurs, schnapps and eaux de vies sold in hand-painted bottles. Garrulous owner Michael Ward welcomes visitors like an old friend and explains the distillery's traditional methods (first developed by Benedictine monks). Despite the arrival...
John Lever runs a farm in Queensland with 3,000 crocodiles and has bagged more than 90 in the rough, including one that was five meters long. How hard could it be to trap a 1.2-meter specimen discovered in a fetid creek in an industrial area of Hong Kong's New Territories? Lever tried last week but quickly found he wasn't in Queensland anymore...
...DIED. R.M. WILLIAMS, 95, iconic cattleman of the Australian bush whose leather-goods and clothing company became a global business empire; near Toowoomba, Queensland. Williams worked as a gold prospector and ranch hand before he began making elastic-sided boots in a shed in the 1930s. He became a multimillionaire but remained a rugged outdoorsman. At the age of 70, Williams finished first in a 250-kilometer horse race in Queensland...