CommunityGeelong, Australia
A 167-year-old ginkgo in Geelong was voted Victoria's tree of the year
The National Trust said the botanic-garden tree, planted in 1859 and about 20 metres tall, took nearly a third of the votes.
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ScienceHuon Marine Park
About 2.8 million eels gather to spawn beside a seamount off Tasmania
A CSIRO-led study in Royal Society Open Science puts the only known deep-sea eel spawning aggregation at Patience Seamount, in Huon Marine Park.
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CommunityLue, Australia
Sydney students and Wiradjuri owners recorded six more grinding sites near Lue
Eleven undergraduates spent late September with traditional owners on a property near Mudgee, mapping axe-grinding grooves and artefacts already thick on the ground.
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CommunityBournda Bird Olympics
Forty students called like kookaburras at the Bournda Bird Olympics
Tathra Public School won the ninth Bournda Bird Olympics in Merimbula, where children mimicked native birds and a Snowy Mountains school of 13 made the trip to cheer.
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CommunitySt Peter's Anglican College
Year 4 students in Broulee planted about 1,000 native plants for a school microforest
St Peter's Anglican College spent a week turning a bare patch of playground into the start of a coastal rainforest, the first New South Wales school to build a microforest into the curriculum with Microforest Collective.
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AnimalsMullumbimby, Australia
A Mullumbimby weekend found homes for hundreds of former battery hens
Who Gives a Cluck paired 247 hens with adopters in Mullumbimby. Birds that failed a health check went to care, not back to the farm.
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CommunityPerth, Australia
Esther Fischer, 75, is now the oldest person to hold a handstand
Guinness certified the Perth gym member this week after she held an unaided handstand for 55 seconds on August 31. The mark to beat was 15 seconds.
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HeroesMorayfield, Australia
A reporter and a bystander pulled a driver from floodwater in Morayfield
Will Murray and Daniel Hainey swam to a four-wheel-drive that stalled on Buchanan Road after about 170 millimetres of rain.
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AnimalsBoston Bay
A kangaroo three kilometers offshore was lifted onto a boat
A crew in Boston Bay, off Port Lincoln, found a male kangaroo in the water, brought him onto the boat, and later watched him hop away from the beach.
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AnimalsLake Bonney
About 600 adult Murray cod went into Lake Bonney
RecFish SA and local helpers released mature cod, some a metre long, into the Riverland lake. A fish scientist said they can reshape habitat, not that they will clear out carp.
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AnimalsLady Elliot Island
Seabirds nested again after decades of planting on Lady Elliot Island
Guano mining left the Great Barrier Reef cay nearly bare. After decades of replanting, about 100,000 black noddies nest there each year.
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AnimalsGingham Waterhole
Thirteen turtles went back to the Gingham Waterhole
Taronga keepers released 10 broad-shelled turtles and three Murray River turtles in September. More adults are still to go, and more than 250 eggs are still being incubated.
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