AZZA VENTURA

Passionate wildlife and conservation student. Have previous experience in wildlife surveying,animal husbandry and bush revegetation. Plant Based Diet.

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Yellow-bellied Water Skink (Eulamprus heatwolei) - a boldly patterned species restricted to the Murray River, small creeks, associated wetlands & rocky embankments where it basks on logs & rocks, escaping to cover or the water when disturbed

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A cool family tree of the triceratops and its pretty interesting to see the huge diversity of the members.

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Bioacoustic monitoring is a rapidly emerging tool in wildlife conservation, aided by recent advances in technology and analytical approaches . However traditionally, the approach is commonly used to detect cryptic species and, more recently, to estimate abundance or density. However, the potential for conservation‐relevant information to be derived from acoustic signatures associated with particular behavior is less well‐exploited. Animal vocal behavior can reveal important information about critical life history events. In below link the study argues that the overlap of the disciplines of bioacoustics, vocal communication, and conservation behavior—thus, “acoustic conservation behavior”—has much to offer threatened species monitoring. After reading the study for myself I believe acoustic conservation behavior research may aid not only in threatended species monitoring but help inform land and other relevant managers , for more effective management and decision making. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/csp2.72

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New Enviornment Minister says she will be an environmentalist! The new environment minister, Sussan Ley, has declared herself an “environmentalist”, saying she is prepared to fight for the environment around the cabinet table even when colleagues disagree with her.Ley, who welcomed the Queensland government’s decision on Thursday to give the green light to the Adani coalmine, told Guardian Australia she wanted to see more action on recycling, threatened species and biodiversity protection, and a greater focus on individual action to achieve a better environment. BUT lead-up to a 10-yearly review of the country’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, Ley has also flagged that she wants approval times for major projects cut, has left the door open to lifting the country’s ban on nuclear power, and has questioned whether land clearing is responsible for species loss. Guess you can say two steps backwards for every step forward!

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Mike Letnic

Devil poo, feral cats and a bold ecological plan. But is it ... too bold?

An incredibly interesting topic and something that I have been in support of for a while. I recommend the listen.

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With donations we are helping save and conserve Australian wildlife from extinction

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pulling over on the side of a rural road on the western Eyre Peninsula late at night to try and figure out if the local servo is open (it wasn't) but instead spotting a Thorn-tailed Gecko (Strophurus assimilis) right next to the car!

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This mornings relatively cool temperature was low enough for the winter-breeding plains brown tree frog to start calling on the CSU campus

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Definition of common quoll-based terms Quollity - worthy of a quoll Quollification - recognised ability to distinguish the 6 sp of quoll Quollify - add quolls to something, immediately improving it Quollitative - objectively analyse, using a quoll-based rating system

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T. carnifex has had evidence in the form of claw marks on steep cave and pit walls where multiple T. carnifex individuals have been found. The marks have been interpreted as evidence of skillful wall-climbing by the large animals. In addition, multiple juvenile T. carnifex individuals found in several caves across Australia suggest that the animals may have lived socially and used the caverns as communal dens.

  We may never truly know until we can go back in time one day!

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8-Year-Old Girl Falls Into Panda Enclosure in China

An 8-year-old girl fell into a panda enclosure in China, but she was rescued by a guard before any danger could come to her.

An eight-year-old girl who fell into a panda enclosure has been rescued. A large crowd surrounded the low-fenced enclosure and watched as a guard rescue the girl from the panda pit at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China on Feb. 9. Though the girl escaped unharmed, there have been instances of pandas presenting a danger to people. A video posted to Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, shows the girl in a red coat in the moat of the panda enclosure.

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A male Javan banded pitta (Hydrornis guajanus). Birds don't get much nicer than this!

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It's really heartbreaking that there is no photo of the Tiger in the wild . Hopefully there's one out and about in someone's garage.

It's one of the few photographs I have seen of adult Thylacines being in such close proximity to each other and points to a new discussion about the social dynamics in the species.

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This snake is thinking, "Silly hoomans need legs to stand. HAHA! Check this out!" I found this curious Green Tree #Snake (Dendrelaphis punctulata) in Townsville

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God some adorable black morph quolls!