Wildlife Australia Magazine Wildlife Australia Magazine Winter 2016 Back Issue

In this finding purpose issue:

· The average Australian child spends less time being active outdoors than a maximum security prisoner. Danielle Shanahan and Richard Fuller ask how we can save wildlife by saving people’s connection to nature.

· Manu Saunders goes beyond the birds and the bees to showcase some of Australia’s most unusual pollinators.

· A special loathing is reserved for animals that suck our blood. Bryan Lessard calls for more appreciation of the virtues of horse flies

· Crows have a reputation for being bold and brassy, but Matthew Brown finds them to be remarkably timid.

· Accomplished cicada duetters and biologists Lindsay Popple and Dave Marshall decode one of the characteristic sounds of the Australian bush.