... off Sydney occurred on 21 August 2014 (Figure 2, Table 1), four nautical miles off Long-Reef, Sydney, where an individual was seen travelling north (Whale Watching Sydney). Previous individual blue whale sightings off Sydney were recorded in July 2013 from Cape Solander, south of Sydney (Figure 2...

... Centre), Whale watching tour. Capt. Luke Price, fishing charter The James Cook 13 Aug Snapper Island, QLD Ron, Trish, Jesse & Taiya Steineck from the Sailing Cat Scuttlebug 14 Aug Green Island, QLD 17 Aug Cape Cleveland, QLD Cairns Whale Watching vessels. Suzanne and Greg Watts. 25 Aug Hardy Reef...

...., and Christiansen, F. 2023. Effects of whale-watching activities on southern right whales in Encounter Bay, South Australia. Marine Policy 150: 105525. httpsdoi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105525 Thé, J., Gamero-Mora, E., da Silva, M.V.C., Morandini, A.C., Rossi, S., and de Oliveira Soares, M. 2021. Non-indigenous...

... watching the water hoping that I might get a glimpse of the Twofold Bay killer whales. Unfortunately I have just missed out on seeing them on a couple of occasions. Killer whales began abandoning Twofold Bay in the late 1800s and are now rarely seen is southern NSW waters. In 1840 there were as many as 30...

.... Auld. Brian Gilligan, on the right hand edge of the group, with a whale watch study team at Point Solander in Kamay Botany Bay National Park. Photo, DECCW. National Parks reflections 6 2009AustralianZoologist volume 35 (1) A P P E N D IX 1 Dr Mark Ooi counting fruit on a mature Grevillea caleyi plant...

..., that overcomes many of those sort of problems. the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. DANNY ROGERS (Victorian Department of Geoff Ross Office of Environment and Heritage NSW. Environment & Primary Industries): I agree. I just add 20 years of whale watching at Cape Solander. the importance of communication between...

... Whale Research 15 July Fitzroy Reef, QLD Centre), Whale watching tour. Capt. Luke Price, fishing charter The James Cook 13 Aug Snapper Island, QLD Ron, Trish, Jesse & Taiya Steineck from the Sailing Cat Scuttlebug 14 Aug Green Island, QLD 17 Aug Cape Cleveland, QLD Cairns Whale Watching vessels...

... from video stills, it appears that these two sightings are of two different blue whales. Prior to this, the last known blue whale sighting off Sydney occurred on 21 August 2014 (Figure 2, Table 1), four nautical miles off Long-Reef, Sydney, where an individual was seen travelling north (Whale Watching...

... in reading this book. Congratulations to Jackie Kerin and Peter Gouldthorpe. Adele Haythornthwaite, University of Sydney and RZS NSW Councillor 484 Whitley awards Australian Zoologist volume 36 (4) 2013 This is a story of a whale and human adventure. The story commences with divers watching Whale Sharks...

... 2023 edition of the Australian Wildlife magazine alongside articles on wetland fauna (Steytler 2023), insects (Bonduriansky 2023) and native birds (Fountain and McDonald 2023) (right). Courtesy of the Australian Wildlife Society. as birdwatching (Randler 2023) and whale-watching (Cisneros-Montemayor et...

... time for a quick historical interlude. From 1892 to 1906 the Curator of Fishes here at the Australian Museum was a man named Edgar Ravenswood Waite. Incidentally, it was around the time that Waite finished his employment here that the whale skeleton above your heads was installed. Anyway, Waite left...

... (pictured), then a lecturer in the Zoology Department at UQ, and I had stood on this high bank the previous evening and watched Queensland Lungfish spawning Lungfish eggs retrieved from the weed bed the following morning Claude Lenfant and Kjell Johansen (right) visited UQ in 1965 from the University...

... conservation initiatives, to protect whales, and to better manage world fisheries. Australia participates in all of these initiatives. In many, such as the protection of whales and the Antarctic, it is a leader. There is much that is good, but, despite the progress, there is much that must be done. Not only...

... in the cluttered hardware shop drinking thick coffee and watching the children play in the brown swirl. I met a German geologist - an old Kalimantan hand - who told me about illegal logging and illegal mining. Gold panners carry big bottles of mercury along the river banks; sometimes they spill. Eventually we made...