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Populate or Perish
Conservationists often reasonably assume that as the world’s human population continues to grow, the spaces for nature are shrinking. But in outback Australia, a key challenge for the survival of our native wildlife is the opposite: there are not enough people. Read More
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Pew Study Identifies the Outback Among Earth’s Strongholds of Nature
The Australian Outback is one of the last immense regions of nature left on Earth, but its future health depends on having more people, not fewer, living in and actively managing it, a new study by global research and public policy organisation The Pew Charitable Trusts has found. Read More
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A Modern Outback — nature, people and the future of remote Australia
It is as the legends have it: red, vast, and there are very few people in it. But the Outback is also astonishingly varied, alternately lush and bountiful and harsh and inhospitable. There are red sand-dunes dotted with hummocks of spinifex grass, barramundi nosing along a tropical waterhole lined with paperbarks, dust rising from cattle on a brown plain, and mist rising in the dawn light in a... Read More
