Flying Fox Nurse
Flying foxes don't have a good reputation. They're smelly, noisy, carry disease and make a dreadful mess with their droppings. Huge colonies of them live in and around the town of Katherine in the...
View ArticleNorthern Territory Country Hour podcast 05/03/10
Chickens are the modern-day version of how canaries down the mine letting the miners know of a gas build up -- although in this case it is checking for disease, and Queensland's rain is also having an...
View ArticleNT Country Hour podcast 09/04/10
Blooding a crocodile in the name of disease research, and hurdling the humps that may be there when it comes to camel handling.
View ArticleNT Country Hour podcast 28/04/2010
Injury forces a former NT rodeo clown to shelve the greasepaint and small meets large when school children check the pulse of some animals.
View ArticleNT Country Hour podcast 29/04/2010
How much will the Northern Territory suffer with Woodside's decision to go offshore and a number of international researchers get "antsy" in Darwin.
View ArticleNT Country Hour podcast 18/05/2010
It may be pregnancy testing - but in this case its on plants and it isn't to find out if there is another on the way, and foot and mouth the dreaded disease is being felt in one of Australia's largest...
View ArticleNT Country Hour podcast 03/06/2010
Can any government program really expect to have an impact upon the feral camel problem and the debate over Muckaty Station as a radio active waste dump heats up as it heads to the courts.
View ArticleNT Country hour podcast 07/06/2010
It has been shut for 9-years, however the sale of the Katherine abattoir is seen as a benefit not just for the town but for industry elsewhere in the Top End and will pastoralists caught by Indonesia's...
View ArticleNT Country Hour podcast 10/06/2010
The crocs force a change in venue for Katherine's ultrachallenge and a community garden aimed at helping kids enjoy a more healthy lifestyle.
View ArticleNT Country Hour podcast 21/06/2010
Brunette Downs race goers cast their eyes over contemporary works celebrating 100-years of racing at the remote station and is mining all that it's made out to be for Australia by it's supporters?
View ArticleBats besiege town's power supply
Continued power outages caused by bats at the remote Northern Territory town of Mataranka are putting lives at risk, a community meeting has heard.
View ArticleNew trap targets feral pigs in the Top End
A new bait and trap system, known as the Hog Hopper, could soon see feral pig numbers across the Top End greatly reduced. The Invasive Animals CRC has been designing the system for over five years. The...
View ArticleGrazier angry about NT wild dogs
A cattle grazier in the Northern Territory says the Territory Government is not allocating enough 10-80 baits to control wild dogs.
View ArticleProducers urged to remember biosecurity
Primary producers are being warned to keep an eye out for unwanted pests and diseases that might spread due to natural disasters. Flood water and winds are just some of the ways weeds and viruses can...
View ArticleThe horse as a pest
While the wild Australian horse, known as the waler, stirs our imagination, the feral horse or brumby causes havoc in fragile Australian landscapes.
View ArticleNT pastoralists complain about lack of access to wild dog baits
Cattle producers in the Northern Territory's Victoria River District say they're losing a large amount of cattle to wild dogs, and they're powerless to stop the problem.
View ArticleIconic animals - the horse
The Australian horse - the waler, the stockhorse - is one of our iconic animals immortalised by poets like Banjo Patterson and seized on by Australian novelists, movie makers, and artists.
View ArticleNo silver bullet for cane toad management
Despite years of research there's still no known way of controlling the spread of cane toads.
View ArticleToads turn west
The southward spread of cane toads seems to have eased, but they're increasingly heading for Western Australia.
View ArticleCall for more wild dog baits in NT
The facilitator of a national wild dog program says the Northern Territory Government should consider allowing pastoralists access to a larger numbers of wild dog baits.
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