I dream of one day being able to dive and swim in the tropical oceans and explore the coral reefs of Australia. I would love to help preserve the reefs and learn more about our ocean animals. But by the time I am a grown up, will it be too late? In the past 5 decades we have seen many incidents of widespread coral bleaching events on many of the world's coral reefs. At the moment climate change and coral bleaching is the biggest threat to our Great Barrier Reef and many more reefs. The reefs needs our help whilst there's still time. What is Coral Bleaching? Coral bleaching happens when the wa ..read more

Introduction For millions of years Sea Turtles have been roaming earth, they have a crucial role for the marine life they live amongst. There are seven different species of Sea Turtles in the world and each kind is endangered. They are the Hawksbill Turtle, the Loggerhead Turtle, the Leatherback Turtle, the Flatback turtle, the Green Turtle, the Kemp Ridley and the Olive Ridley Turtle. Why they matter? Sea turtles help maintain the health of our kelp beds and coral reefs so smaller animals can shelter in them. Green turtles graze on seagrass to keep the right nutrients level, with less green t ..read more

This morning I was walking around my garden looking for some flowers to take photos of and saw that my next door neighbours had some beautiful flowers. So I asked if I could go over and this is what flowers I found. 1. Moonbee 2. Vivid Blossom 3. Perfect Pom Pom 4. Purple Twig 5. Pretty Camilia 6. Cross Stitch 7. Magnificent Marigold 8. Pinky-Yellow Snapdragon ..read more

Written By Jasmine (My Sister) Who doesn’t love a good coffee? Every morning at 8:30 Dad HAS to have his coffee. We walk together to our favourite coffee shop and sit outside and wait. I watch 15 people walk out with paper cups, stand around chatting and then throw their cup into an overflowing rubbish bin. I start to think about the whole of Melbourne . . the whole of Australia . . . and how many cups are being thrown into the rubbish each day. So I did some research. Australians throw out 2.7 million coffee cups every single day. This adds up to 1 billion cups a year for Australians and 16 ..read more

Image from ABC news Imagine living on this A4 piece of paper for your whole life. It's not actually a piece of paper, it’s a wire cage, hundreds of them stacked on top of each other, in rows in giant sheds with no sunlight . . . This is the tragic life of a battery hen. Battery cages were first introduced to Australia in the 1950’s and even though people are aware of them, not much has changed. Currently in Australia there is approx. 11 million battery hens! Battery hens live standing on wire for their whole life, which slopes downwards so the eggs can be collected. They eat by putting their ..read more

It was so great to be able to go on a family adventure after lockdowns and winter weather. We took the scenic drive from Albury to Beechworth this weekend and discovered the pretty town of Beechworth and Beechworth Historic Park. Beechworth Historic Park is located just outside Beechworth. It has many waterfalls and pleasant walks to go on. It's a 14km round trip that goes all the way into beechworth this walk goes beside Reid creek (also known as Spring Creek). Woolshed falls Woolshed falls is just near the carpark and is a spectacular waterfall with lots of rockpools and climbing fun. You c ..read more

Introduction Orange-bellied Parrots live in Victoria and Tasmania and South Australia. They are one of the few migratory parrot species in the world. The Orange-bellied Parrot is critically endangered with fewer than 50 left in the wild! It is also Australia’s most threatened bird species. Description Orange-bellied Parrots are green with blue wings and a blue stripe across their foreheads. Its belly is orange like the name suggests and the tail is yellow. It’s 20cm long and 45-50g. They are very rare to find out in the wild because they're fewer than 50 left. Source : Zoos.com.au Diet The Or ..read more

Introduction Did you know that throughout all Australian households we create 1000kg (1 ton) of waste every minute! That's 60,000kg (60tons) an hour!! That's crazy! Surely, we can do better. So what are you waiting for? Let's go and see what we can do as part of this war on waste. So, what are some of the big issues here? Apples in plastic . . .that's Bananas! Most supermarkets have unnecessary plastic wrapped around some products that don't need it at all. Some foods like Bananas and Apples have special nature-given wrapping, so you don't need to cover them in plastic wrap or put them in a pl ..read more

Sighing, I bent down to pick up what felt like the millionth piece of rubbish. Another Macca's cup! On a warm sunny morning on the school holidays, Mum, Jas and I went for a walk/scooter to the river for a swim and decided to pick up all the rubbish along the way. I was surprised at how many big rubbish bags we needed! We collected 4 garbage bags of rubbish, mostly McDonalds packaging, bottles and bits of styrofoam. This was collected just off Riverina highway in Albury NSW and now a couple of months later it's already filled with rubbish again. I feel really frustrated! Why can't people just ..read more

1. Green Leaf 2. Waterbay (this is actually water!!) 3. Magnificent Magnolia 4. Little Fall 5. Mr Buggy 6. Lavender Fly 7. Curious Bird ..read more