This identification sheet will help you find the “hero ant” that looks after the rare Arid Bronze Azure butterfly.

We’re trying to establish a colony of Sugar Ants so we can observe how this hero ant raises the caterpillars of the Arid Bronze Azure butterfly.

The Caper White butterflies have arrived, bees are swarming, a weekend for Malleefowl, a Giant Scavenging Water Beetle and Swallowtail butterflies.

The Judy-Phil-Fiona direct seeding machine, mysterious cuckoo spit and the secrets of the Invisible Plant revealed.

Jazz finding quail, our weeding volunteers, monitoring Ogyris habitat, a multitude of Springtails and a brand new Pine Woodland.

The 2022 tree-planting extravaganza with Carey Baptist Grammar. Where did the trees come from and what will they become?

A sun-baking mantid, hot pink and purple plants, frosty mornings and rainbows, an Australian Shelduck on our wetland and getting rid of Cruel Vine. Plus, a visit from the Food Next Door farmers!

Direct seeding video, our new electric side-by-side vehicle and the end of Buffel Grass hunting season.

Beautiful birds: Mulga Parrots, Grey Fantail and Red-capped Robins

Celebrating the launch of the Raakajlim sanctuary and completion of our conservation fence with a short video and an interview with our supporters. Enjoy the wonderful footage of the property and our Mallee birds.

A covey of quail, the cutest Nobbi Dragon, frogs enjoying the rain, Garland Lilies as Easter eggs, trapping bats and tree planting finished for 2022.

Dragonflies dragging each other around by the head, psychedelic Damselflies, and an epic battle with a Mudeye.

Buffel Grass alert! A tired Australian Wanderer; Rain and the tadpoles; Bathurst Burr versus welding gloves; A first for southern Australia on the moth sheet; A flight through a semi-arid grassland

The wetlands on Raakajlim, incredible colors on a Flower Chafer Beetle, a juvenile Brown Snake, a visit from the Mildura Birdlife gang, the fence is finally finished, and the Sand Goanna mystery solved.

A rare plant called Boerhavia coccinea, the food plant for the Striped Hawk Moth caterpillar Yeperenye.

After six months, we are pleased to announce that the fence is finally finished!

A firey start to the new year, a plant that looks better dead, a handsome puffball, January rain, and the cutest Wooly Bee-fly.

Flowering at night, a mystery, native bee pollinator and special twists to keep the flowers closed. Weird indeed.

We’re building the final section of our fence. It is in steep sand dunes and is really tricky and slow-going. But we are getting there!

Regent Parrots eating wattle seed, collecting Pine seed, a “sphexish” wasp and the return of the Black-shouldered Kite.