VIDEO: Tasmanian Tree Project
Behind the scenes photographing a living giant – an 84m swamp gum in the depths of Tasmania’s forests, home of the world’s tallest flowering plants.
Behind the scenes photographing a living giant – an 84m swamp gum in the depths of Tasmania’s forests, home of the world’s tallest flowering plants.
A majestic ghost gum stands alone at sunset, 40km west of Alice Springs.
The story behind Tasmania’s annual turning of the fagus is as fascinating to learn about as the tree is beautiful to look at.
One-way scenic drive through the Karri forest in Warren National Park, Western Australia.
The fern–eucalypt association is the Dandenong’s signature. Every track or mountain road swooping down the flanks of the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, seems to reveal another lavish, frond-filled gully. Among them, Sherbrooke Forest is one of the prime strongholds of temperate rainforest, a haven of mountain ash, mountain grey gums, silver wattle, soft tree ferns, blackwood and southern sassafras. Far from the nearest road, the only sounds in the valley stillness are the distant screeches of sulphur-crested cockatoos and the gurgle of water from the creek below.
Koalas hugging cool trees can reduce their body temperatures by almost 70 per cent
Deep in the ancient forests of south-west WA are thought to lurk gigantic karri trees, taller than any yet recorded
The giant karri trees of Western Australia’s southwest are a true wonder of nature and a must-see.
Only trees in North America and Borneo rival the size of our native eucalypts, some almost 100m tall.
Only trees in North America and Borneo rival the size of our native eucalypts, some almost 100m tall.