
Galapagos: ultimate nature adventure, day 3
AG editor Ian Connellan heads to the volcanic island Bartolomé, with some close animal encounters.
AG editor Ian Connellan heads to the volcanic island Bartolomé, with some close animal encounters.
Tortoise numbers in the Galapagos are on the rise, thanks to breeding programs, finds the AG editor.
On day 5, expeditioners head to Isla San Cristóbal, home to masses of sea lions and white, sandy beaches.
Expeditioners head to Gardner Island, the oldest in the archipelago, where wildlife abounds.
Watching penguins and snorkelling with rays and huge schools of fish is the order of the day.
The last day of the trip delivers more spectacular displays of wildlife.
This year, the UN is asking us to think about and visit our forests, home to so many of the world’ species.
Borrowing heavily from popular culture, these new words have made it into the Macquarie Dictionary for 2010.
Photographer Andrew Quilty covered the Black Saturday bushfires – two years later, he documents the regrowth.
Anomalous stars zipping across the Milky Way are the ‘fossils’ of a remnant galaxy, says Fred Watson.