RESCUING THE GODDESS OF THE GRASSLANDS
An unlikely collaboration between Queensland pastoralists and conservationists is helping save one of our prettiest and rarest parrots.
STORY BY JAANA DIELENBERG
Australian Portrait
IN 1922 BIRD collector William McLennan was exploring the country outside Coen,on Queensland’s CapeYork Peninsula, when he stumbled upon a vast grassy flat populated with thousands of termite mounds. Nearly every conical mound showed signs that the...
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