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...These are three victims of the slaughter of wildlife on Australia's roads. Quantifying the annual carnage is impossible, but "it's going to run into millions," says Daniel Ramp, an environmental scientist at the University of New South Wales. He's been studying a 30-km stretch of the Snowy Mountains Highway for six years, and each year it has claimed around 650 kangaroos. "And that's not counting wombats, possums or anything else," he says...
...usual culprit along this stretch of road is the kangaroo. "The roos breed up something phenomenal," says Eucla mechanic Rodney Fowler, who regularly tows broken-down vehicles across the Nullarbor. "Trucks bowl them over all the time, and a few cars as well. And they just keep on coming and they don't thin out." But a roo isn't to blame this morning, nor is low oil or water. Written across the Kenworth's chassis is the motto without trucking australia stops, but into the last quarter of their 40-hour trip, Schneider and Bryson must simply...
...There's never a dull moment,'' says Burke Shire Mayor Annie Clarke, whose tiny council oversees the 225-km stretch from Burketown to the border. Floods create much of the drama: monsoonal rains and cyclones regularly swell Gulf Country rivers and send stormy seas surging across the low coastline. Early this year, floods inundated 6,000 sq. km of Burke Shire, turning Highway 1 into a chain of atolls; supplies had to be dropped to some settlements by helicopter. At Floraville station, 73 km south of the town-and 80 km inland-the homestead was an island for two weeks...
...Despite the rough going, the area's spectacular scenery draws a steady stream of tourists, who set off like explorers, their four-wheel-drives and caravans laden with water, food and fuel. Of the 100 vehicles a day that travel this stretch of Highway 1 in the dry season, Clarke says, around 60 belong to tourists. Even a hell ride has its allure...
...doesn't do justice to the quiet watchfulness of his profession. But a dogger he is and his frontier is the dingo fence-not the 5,400-km great wall of wire that runs from the Great Australian Bight to Queensland's Bunya Mountains, but a mere 500-km stretch bordering one of the Nullarbor's largest sheep stations, near Cocklebiddy. His painstaking task is to patrol and repair its parameter of chicken wire, laying dog baits as he goes. Little escapes his eagle eye: the other week, marauding camels charged through the fence in two places, while the sudden...