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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
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S3E6 Oceans of change: Turtles, blue carbon & whale poo
Send a textFrom plankton to humpbacks, ocean life is riding massive waves of change – including ocean warming, rising sea levels, acidification and algal blooms. In the Timor Sea off the Kimberley…
S3E5 Traditional knowledge: Healing Country and sharing Indigenous wisdom
Send a textTraditional Custodians have recorded sea level changes, volcanic shifts and meteoric events for over 10,000 years through story, song, dance and art. Since colonisation, these knowledge…
S3E4 Working together: Gondwana Link, Aboriginal land, and sustainable farming
Send a textThe landscapes of Southwest Western Australia smack you in the face with their ecological richness, according to Gondwana Link CEO Keith Bradby. He and others – including Bush Heritage –…
S3E3 Surviving the heat: Climate change in deserts, numbats and knowledge
Send a textOur 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 temperatures mean for the…
S3E2 Restoring nature: Platypus comeback, oyster reefs and habitat corridors
Send a textWhen nature is destroyed and removed, can we ever truly restore it? Across Australia, scientists and communities are sharing powerful stories of ecological restoration – from city rivers…
S3E1 Trees & Climate: Bob Brown, cultural connection, and why forests matter
Send a textOn an island at the edge of the Earth – Lutruwita/Tasmania – Tiahni sits down with legendary environmentalist Bob Brown. Among flowering blackwoods, they explore tree conservation and…
S3 Big Sky Country Season Three Trailer
Send a textPrepare 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 investigate how biodiversity…
S2E6 Learning Garawa
Send a textIt’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 destination is worth it. The…
S2E4 Farmer wants some biodiversity
Send a textIt 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 the health of their…
S2E5 The return of the right-way burn
Send a textIn 2021, Wiradjuri Elder Uncle James Ingram and Bush Heritage’s Aboriginal Partnerships Manager and Yuin Walbunja woman, Vikki Parsley, walked across Tarcutta Hills Reserve in southern NSW…
S2E3 People have the power
Send a textWhat 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 Scottsdale Reserve on Ngarigo and…
S2E2 A snail of a time
Send a textAmongst inland wulo (rainforest) and on islands in the North Kimberley, Wunambal Gaambera Country, lives an unassuming group of animals. The species slime their way along the forest floor…
S2E1 Call me by your birdsong
Send a textCan 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 forest. For some…
S2 Big Sky Country Season Two Trailer
Send a textJoin 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 Heritage Australia to travel…
S1E6 The sandalwood tree
Send a textIf every scent tells a story, the Australian Sandalwood Tree (Santalum Spicatum) must be a library; rich with ecological, cultural and economic history books. But today, much of this…
S1E5 Clouds build up, fruits flower, Indigenous seasons change
Send a textWhen 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 November? The Dry season on the…
S1E4 Red fins, blue eyes, can't lose
Send a textWhen 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 central Queensland, a…
S1E3 Where there's water, there's life
Send a textNaree 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 comes alive. Dry soil…
S1E2 The secret life of phascogales
Send a textClimb 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 fluffy red tails - are just…
S1E1 From little trees, climate resilience grows
Send a textThe 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 causing trees to die. Grey…
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Big Sky Country has published 21 episodes since January 2022, covering topics in Natural Sciences, Science.
Big Sky Country is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 24m.
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