Bridled Nailtail Wallabies are macropods. Macropod means big foot (all the better for hopping with!). Macropods are marsupials in the family Macropodidae, including kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, bettongs, potaroos and pademelons.

Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) is a hardy species of wattle tree that grows to 25 meters high. At the time of European settlement, dense brigalow land stretched across a 6.5 million hectare belt from Charters Towers to northern NSW.

In January 2013, excessive rain from Ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald—800mm over […]

Found only on a few headlands from Stockyard Point to Shoalwater Bay on the Capricorn Coast, this small bushy shrub is listed as vulnerable under the Australian Government’s EPBC Act.

Invasive animal under Queensland’s Biosecurity Act 2014 Originally introduced to […]

The Capricorn Caves fern survives in thin pockets of soil in the walls and floors of limestone caves, sometimes deep within the cave where light penetrates only occasionally.

Capricorn Yellow Chats feed, nest and breed at Twelve Mile Creek, just south of Rockhampton, not far from Marmor.

Cat’s claw creeper is a Weed of National Significance as it completely smothers all vegetation in its path.

Restricted invasive animal under Queensland’s Biosecurity Act 2014 Originally introduced for […]