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Road kill: can we help stop the carnage?

The ABC's Stacey Katter asks an expert.

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Heat wave relief

In Queensland's far west last week the mercury was pushing 50 degrees Celsius and birds and kangaroos were dying.

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Spotlight on rats

Native rats are on the rise in western Queensland.

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Maranoa macropod harvesters

The Maranoa Kangaroo Harvesters and Growers Cooperative started out as a Landcare project and works with landholders and kangaroo harvesters to sustainably cull and sell off kangaroo meat.

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Jessica Watson meets Jessica Bilby

Two rather famous individuals got together in Ispwich this week creating a positive story for the city after several months of heartache with the floods. Solo sailor Jessica Watson and former Olympic...

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Rats and researchers respond

With good rain and flooding over two seasons, the landscape in western Queensland is really booming and blooming. The native long-haired rat (Rattus villoissimus) is one animal that's taking advantage...

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Rain cancels the camel racing at Boulia

There was disappointment for all concerned as the Boulia Camel Races were cancelled on the weekend due to rain and a wet and slippery track. This was the first time in the event's 15 year history that...

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Native rats on the rampage

A plague of native rats (Rattus villoissimus) is continuing to cause havoc in the Channel Country, with the rodents invading camp sites, crawling over sleeping campers and chewing their way through...

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A heritage horse-drawn wagon trek

How peaceful do you think it would be, travelling along an old dirt track, through the bush, in a horse drawn wagon?

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Fauna thrives in Qld's far west

A conservation group says record numbers of small mammals and reptiles have been found on two of its properties in far west Queensland.

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Batty in Jericho: A colony of flying foxes settles in

A colony of around 15,000 flying foxes has arrived in the central-west town of Jericho.

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Jericho awaits permission for bat clean-up

A colony of up to 12-thousand flying foxes that was roosting in the main streets of Jericho have now moved out of the town centre.

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Bats update, Jericho and Mount Isa

The Barcaldine Regional Council has been given six months to clear vegetation in Jericho to ensure flying foxes don't return to roost. While council and residents of Mount Isa are meeting with DERM...

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Doubt cast over bat cull plan

The Mount Isa Bat Committee says a plan to cull the population of bats which arrive annually in the city is not feasible.

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Former ferals get knocked up at uni

Feral goats taken from the Queensland rangelends are assisting with a James Cook University study on animal reproduction.

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Grazier Angus Emmott on the natural wonders of Queensland's far west

Grazier, naturalist, photographer Angus Emmott has lived his whole life on Noonbah station in far south-western Queensland.

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What will a dog do for a tennis ball?

Youve seen them at the airport, youve seen them with the police on the telly and now there is a crack squad of sniffer dogs at Carnarvon Station Reserve in the Brigalow Belt region of Central...

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What will a dog do for a tennis ball?

Youve seen them at the airport, youve seen them with the police on the telly and now there is a crack squad of sniffer dogs at Carnarvon Station Reserve in the Brigalow Belt region of Central...

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