The entry to Rinca Island and its landing area is also beautiful.

It is the Komodos that we have come to visit.

Remaining Grey Kangaroo populations will increasingly be associated with land for wildlife properties, the edge of towns, public lands and wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centres.

After Victoria’s most catastrophic fires on record, its government claims a steep rise in the Kangaroo population.

So in this story (from April 2021) I take another look at what is going on in Australia’s State of Victoria.

January 2022, we are filming Australian wildlife at the edge of a National Park in the West of Victoria.

Two species of Kangaroo are currently killed for commercial gain in Western Australia, the Red Kangaroo and the Western Grey Kangaroo.

There are a number of significant concerns in relation to wildlife in Tasmania.

As the Ainu describe it, the place where the earth ends.

There is plenty of evidence that Kangaroo populations in Victoria are vanishing, and fast.

Come with us to Sydney’s very beautiful Macquarie Street and its house of wisdom and modernity. Come inside and listen.

We spend a day in the bushlands around the farming region of Yea in the Australian state of Victoria.

Queensland and its species: Extinct, threatened and vulnerable species

Regional extinctions are also commonplace as the range (distribution) of a species contracts and fragments.

This analysis (2018) lists the extinct, endangered, vulnerable and rare species in South Australia. Here I have just added mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian and plant species.

This is a story about Kangaroos, about cities and how we visualise and understand numbers.

Good scientific practice requires methodologies to be replicated and repeated.

The way we treat the natural world needs a rethink, and fast.

So with Kangaroos in mind, once more we make the long journey from Melbourne to Bathurst in New South Wales.

What I have been through, no human should have to go through.

If we destroy species and habitats, you do not have to be a genius to understand the result.

The people who attempt to protect the wildlife are ignored and demeaned by their politicians.

It is left to a dedicated few to pick up the pieces.

On the day of writing this, Australia released its State of the environment report – written last year and slipped in the draw until a change of Government in Canberra.

In 2017 the permits issued in Victoria to kill Red Kangaroos exceeded their entire state population estimates by 2,187 animals.

This report contains reflections on a trip in Western Victoria in June 2022.

This blog is about friendships with Emus and anecdotes from old friends regarding this remarkable bird.

What I think was so important about Corfu and Gerry’s time there was it triggered in him a lifelong and entirely focused passion about the natural world.

We step back more than a decade, I wanted to explore how our relationship with animals was changing as societies and cultures around the world adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. The answer today, badly.

In these bleak blackened landscapes of South Eastern Australia the sound of silence, of nature destroyed.

All wildlife in these fire zones need help, not just threatened species.

The fires burned the landscapes at catastrophic scale and energy.

In order to maintain the Kangaroo population estimates, new shooting zones and regions are added as others close because the Kangaroos are gone.

In 2022 the population estimate has again increased to 10.9 million Kangaroos across the 15 Kangaroo shooting zones, an increase of 4.5 per cent compared to the survey results of the previous year.

All the way from France, Laetitia, is working as a wildlife carer at Possumwood.

In 2019 just over 4,000 Kangaroos were killed in these parks, in 2020 it was 1,958.

Setting the quotas for 2022 - In 2021, all 22 survey monitor blocks in Queensland were surveyed.

Dr Rosemary Austen describes the impact of acts of extreme cruelty to Australian wildlife on human populations.

This ACT Government says Isaacs Ridge Nature Reserve is important for conservation of local wildlife and their habitats..

It is the callous disregard of these residents that takes my breath away.

Spin and mischief cannot conceal these terrible crimes against the natural world.

One thing that would be worse than failing to achieve anything and to save anything, would be to stop trying.

Professor Steve Garlick tells us about how the hospital provides help to Australia’s embattled wildlife.

The poor little joeys, it is just shocking what they do to them.

“There is even more intimidation, this stuff is real, this stuff happens”. Greg Keightley

In this film in the Kangaroo testimonies series, Emma, from Sweden, expresses her dismay about what she has learnt since visiting Australia.

Manfred Zabinskas OAM and Peter Hylands discuss the circumstances that Australia’s wildlife in Victoria is now facing.

What I have always noticed, since first visiting Australia, is just how wonderful individual Australian animals are.

In November 2021 we visited the Morning Peninsula in Victoria, specifically Cape Schanck and the immediate region.

The suffering of Kangaroos, in terms of scale, the methods of harm, are acknowledged internationally for their extreme cruelty.

The next day is ruined in terms of any possibility of working and so the damage continues.

High powered rifles and rural residential zonings do not mix. Nor do high powered rifles, tourists and tourism businesses.

Tonight, Australia’s commercial trade in wildlife, will kill many more adults Kangaroos.

Long days and even longer nights, waiting and waiting more, waiting for the Kangaroo killers to return.