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Michelle Ostwald THE STAR/DPA – A dog-like, partly striped animal paces round a cage and sniffs at a man through the mesh. The grainy film from 1935 shows Benjamin, the last known Tasmanian tiger, “forced out of its natural habitat by the march of civilisation”, the narrator said. One year later, the carnivore died at […]
Australia has the world’s largest wild camel population but, today, Australians are no longer as keen on their camels, often seen as a nuisance. So they are trying to find uses for their animals by creating camel products.
A bite by a Sydney funnel-web spider can kill someone within an hour. An Australian man spends his spare time catching the dreaded arachnid. His work is helping efforts to produce an antidote to the spider’s venom.
Interest in permaculture is steadily increasing worldwide and it’s now taught at universities, too. But people are also eager to learn about the principles as their fear grows of food shortages.