Big Sky Country
by Bush Heritage Australia
Latest episode
Oceans of change: Turtles, blue carbon & whale poo
Oceans of change: Turtles, blue carbon & whale poo
About this podcast
Join conservation organisation Bush Heritage Australia to travel the vast Australian continent: from the flanks of the Mighty Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales where over 40,000 trees have been planted, to the ‘Galapagos of the Kimberley’ where some slimy snails have scientists extremely excited, and across to the ancestral lands of Waanyi and Garawa people where they are keeping culture and biodiversity alive. Meet experts in conservation and Country who are on the ground working to address some of our most pressing environmental threats. Theme music by The Orbweavers. Sign up to our newsletter at www.bushheritage.org.au or follow us on socials @bushheritageaus
Episodes
The newest 20 of 21 episodes
- Oceans of change: Turtles, blue carbon & whale poo · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail From plankton to humpbacks, ocean life is riding massive waves of change – including ocean warming, rising sea levels, acidification and algal blooms. In the…
- Traditional knowledge: Healing Country and sharing Indigenous wisdom · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail Traditional Custodians have recorded sea level changes, volcanic shifts and meteoric events for over 10,000 years through story, song, dance and art. Since…
- Working together: Gondwana Link, Aboriginal land, and sustainable farming · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail The landscapes of Southwest Western Australia smack you in the face with their ecological richness, according to Gondwana Link CEO Keith Bradby. He and others –…
- Surviving the heat: Climate change in deserts, numbats and knowledge · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail Our planet is getting hotter – and deserts, covering 41% of the Earth and nearly 20% of Australia, are on the frontline. What will the sweltering and scorching…
- Restoring nature: Platypus comeback, oyster reefs and habitat corridors · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail When nature is destroyed and removed, can we ever truly restore it? Across Australia, scientists and communities are sharing powerful stories of ecological…
- Trees & Climate: Bob Brown, cultural connection, and why forests matter · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail On an island at the edge of the Earth – Lutruwita/Tasmania – Tiahni sits down with legendary environmentalist Bob Brown. Among flowering blackwoods, they explore…
- Big Sky Country Season Three Trailer · 3 min · Season 3Send us Fan Mail Prepare for Big Sky Country Season 3, our most expansive season yet. In six captivating new episodes, we take you down the backroads of this diverse country to…
- Learning Garawa · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail It’s a two-day drive from Darwin to Robinson River, on Garawa Country in the NT, just south of the Gulf of Carpentaria. While the road there can be long, the…
- The return of the right-way burn · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail In 2021, Wiradjuri Elder Uncle James Ingram and Bush Heritage’s Aboriginal Partnerships Manager and Yuin Walbunja woman, Vikki Parsley, walked across Tarcutta…
- Farmer wants some biodiversity · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail It might seem strange for an ecologist to spend time on pastoral lands, but that’s exactly what Imogen Semmler does. She ‘meanders’ across paddocks to measure…
- People have the power · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail What does it take to restore a native woodland? A bucket, hammer, trowel, seedlings and a whole heap of people power. These ingredients are abundant at…
- A snail of a time · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail Amongst inland wulo (rainforest) and on islands in the North Kimberley, Wunambal Gaambera Country, lives an unassuming group of animals. The species slime their…
- Call me by your birdsong · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail Can you imagine nature without sound? No bellbirds, or lyrebirds. No bleating frogs or whispering leaves. No nature’s call to tell the story of the wonder of the…
- Big Sky Country Season Two Trailer · 2 min · Season 2Send us Fan Mail Join us in April 2023 for season two of Big Sky Country, bringing stories from the bush to wherever you get your podcasts. Join conservation organisation Bush…
- The sandalwood tree · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail If every scent tells a story, the Australian Sandalwood Tree (Santalum Spicatum) must be a library; rich with ecological, cultural and economic history books…
- Clouds build up, fruits flower, Indigenous seasons change · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail When you think of the seasons, does Spring begin on the first day of September? Summer on the first of December? Or is it the Wet season on the first of…
- Red fins, blue eyes, can't lose · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail When there's one single population of a species left in the world, what do you do? Do you let it go extinct? Or do you do everything you can to save it? In…
- Where there's water, there's life · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail Naree Station Reserve on Budjiti country in New South Wales might look dry on most days of the year, but when the water arrives, by rain or flood, the landscape…
- The secret life of phascogales · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail Climb up the tree. Open the nest box. And look inside the lives of Red-tailed Phascogales. These small arboreal marsupials - with their big ears, big eyes and…
- From little trees, climate resilience grows · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail The climate has always changed. But in recent years, these changes have gotten drastically faster and more noticeable. So much so that, in some cases, they are…
