Aussie Wildlife Show

Dr. John Wamsley OAM | Australian Environmentalist of the Year 2000

We sat down for a chat with our good friend Dr John Wamsley at his bush block in the Adelaide Hills. He is known colloquially as the 'cat hat man' because he wore a hat made from the pelt of feral cat to a tourism awards ceremony, the ensuing controversy led to the laws changing to allow feral cats to be legally killed is Australia.

He set up wildlife sanctuaries across Australia to exclude feral animals and to reintroduce locally extinct and threatened species. We talk to John about the early days of his conservation endeavours as well as his firsthand experience working with such animals as platypus, bilbies and numbats.

John turned 80 in 2018 and is still active in the realm of conservation and habitat restoration.  

He was the Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year in 2000.

Dr. Aaron Camens | Palaeontologist, Flinders University

With the climate warming will the Earth again be inundated with giant reptiles or are we about to be thrust into another ice age? 

On this episode we talk to Dr. Aaron Camens about how the Earth's ever changing climate can affect the world's fauna, as well as discusing some of the amazing mega fauna that once roamed across Australia.

 

Neil Waters | Thylacine Awareness Group

ARE THEY OUT THERE??? Officially recognised as extinct we talk to Neil Waters about the consistent sighting of Thylacines (AKA marsupial tigers) still occurring to this day all over mainland Australia and Tasmania.

Visit the Thylacine Awareness Group's Facebook page and checkout Tassie Tiger Lodge. 

Click here to purchase Neil's DVD, Living the Thylacine Dream. 

 

Dr. Philip Roetman | Citizen Science

Counting koalas, tracking pet cats, community wildlife surveys and goanna watch. Learn how YOU can make valuable contributions to scientific research, possibly discovering a new species or even a new astronomical object . We discuss some of the citizen science projects recently undertaken by the University of South Australia.

Check out the Discovery Circle Website or the Australian Citizen Science Project Finder to get involved! 

 

John Gitsham | President of Birds SA

Bullies, house wreckers, lazy parents, murderers and cheats, but not all birds are jerks. On this episode we sit in a bushland setting with passionate naturalist, birdwatcher and conservationist John Gitsham to discuss all things birds.

To learn more about John's Birdwatching and photography courses visit his website, Nature Connections. 

Steve Backshall | Deadly 60

What does Steve Backshall have to say about Aussie Wildlife and why it keeps drawing him back? We caught up with him backstage during his 2018 Deadly 60 Downunder Tour.