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...Cavers joke that Tasmania is almost hollow, a speleologist's paradise with as much wilderness to explore below ground as above. But while caves are plentiful, caves containing rock art are not. That's why the location of this cave is so closely guarded: since it was found in 2002 by a caver surveying the area for foresters, only a handful of people have seen inside it. So sensitive is the land council about tipping off sightseers and vandals to the cave's whereabouts that a condition of Time's visit is that not even the name of the closest...
...suite of photographs, One Dozen Unnatural Disasters in the Australian Landscape, sits charmingly alongside a new exhibition of the colonial painter John Glover. If his A View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England in the wilds of Tasmania, so Laing's Burning Ayer #1, 2003, illustrates a similar impulse to Europeanize the Outback. Here the photographer has shot a mountain of Ikea-type furniture dusted in ocher and shaped like Uluru - a supremely surreal image: Laing had the mountain flown in to a remote region of Western Australia...
...first hints of DFTD surfaced eight years ago, when a photographer contacted Mooney to tell him of terrible tumors he had documented in devils in Tasmania?s northeast. Then, in 1999, one of the world?s few devil experts, zoologist Menna Jones, reported similar tumors among animals she was studying on the east coast. But it wasn?t until late last year that a statewide snapshot survey revealed the full extent of the epidemic. Despite the Tasmanian devil?s iconic status and its key ecological role as a super-efficient scourer of the bush, requests for a program to monitor...
From inside the hessian sack comes a low growl. Wildlife biologist Nick Mooney reaches in and carefully pulls out a Tasmanian devil, the largest carnivorous marsupial, a halo of stiff whiskers framing bright brown eyes and rich, dark fur; an open mouth revealing sharp teeth. Tasmania is famed as much for its creatures as its landscapes, and chief in this unique menagerie is the devil, reportedly so named by early settlers, who were rattled by its ferocity and the ungodly sounds of its squabbles over food. Few ever get this close to the stocky, dog-like creature, which scavenges...
...dawn on a January morning, and the sky is streaked vivid pink as a team from the state?s Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment heads into state forest bordering the Wilderness World Heritage Area in Tasmania?s rugged Central Highlands. The logging road crosses the Nive River, running silver in the early light, and winds among snow gums covered in creamy blossoms. Plenty of ground cover makes this perfect devil country, home to a daily smorgasbord of wallabies and other treats. That?s why Mooney, scientific officer Billie Lazenby and conservation officer Andry Sculthorpe are here, hoping...