In May-June 2014, a Bush Blitz survey was conducted at Durack River and Karunjie Stations in the Kimberley, Western Australia. In total 419 species were found that had not previously been recorded for the properties, including 41 species that may be new to science. Nine threatened species were recorded, as well as four exotic or […]

BHP Billiton employees Aimee Bennett, Candice Burvill, Ingrid Flemons, John Forsyth, Mary Thatcher, Matthew Kavanagh, Peter Olds and Josh Gatt have spent the last week working alongside scientists in the Lake Torrens and Roxby Downs regions of South Australia. They have helped catch bees and wasps with butterfly nets, collected plants, dug up spiders, wrestled ferocious […]

Day 1 Flying into Roxby Downs, I looked down at the expanse of Lake Torrens from the air and thought……can a barren-looking place like that be home to any life at all? Since then, just two days in, I have been in awe of what I have seen, what is actually alive, and what scientists […]

The kids of the Roxby Downs community in north eastern South Australia had a wonderful time on Sunday meeting scientists and some of their more “interesting” finds from the Lake Torrens Bush Blitz currently underway. The community day, held at the Roxby Downs Lions park, was not just for the young. Budding scientists of all […]

Micarea eucalypti was collected during a Bush Blitz survey of Namadgi and Kosciuszko National Parks in December 2013. Its description has now been published in Telopea, an open-access, online, internationally peer-reviewed journal of plant systematics. The lichen genus Micarea is mainly northern-temperate in its distribution, with approximately 100 species growing on bark, rock and soil. Twenty-three taxa […]

The Bush Blitz crew has headed to Lake Torrens in South Australia with a team of scientists from the South Australian Museum, Herbarium of South Australia, Flinders University, University of Adelaide, Queensland Museum and La Trobe University in search of bees, stygofauna (animals that live in groundwater), lizards, snails, spiders, plants and fungi. Monday August 29 […]