Tropical Topics - No 64 - A newsletter for the tropical tourism industry

Termites - The Good GuysTermites are not well loved.They cause a great deal of damage to wooden structures but the blame for this lies with just a few species.

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Tropical Topics - No 75 - A newsletter for the tropical tourism industry

A wealth of information on the mammals of Northern Queensland.

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Tropical Topics - No 66 - A newsletter for the tropical tourism industry

Surviving the challenges of the dry season.

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Tropical Topics - No 71 - A newsletter for the tropical tourism industry

More information on the dry season in Cape York Peninsula.Life is tough for plants living in the seasonally dry tropics.

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Tropical Topics - No 73 - A newsletter for the tropical tourism industry

Birds of the savannah lands.

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Tropical Topics - No 80 - A newsletter about the environment

Australia is home to some of the most venomous snakes in the world.

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Tropical Topics - No 78 - a newsletter about the environment

Australia - the land of lizards.

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Caring for Cassowary

The program will identify solutions to reduce threats affecting the future of the southern cassowary on Cape York, operating across all land tenures, and will include:

• the establishment of an Indigenous Fire Mentoring Program to support Indigenous people in cultural fire management

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Ant Plant Identification Guide

In the Family of Australian ant-plants there are two Genera of Rubiaceous ant-plants; Myrmecodia (domatia with spines and thick stems) and Hydnophytum (domatia without spines and thin stems).

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Ant Plant Species Profile

Myrmecodia beccarii was declared Vulnerable under Queensland’s Nature Conservation Act, 1992 because its population is decreasing due to key threats (primarily habitat loss due to clearing of coastal Melaleuca forests for development).

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