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Diamantina Touring Company

Locality: Jamieson, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5777 0681

Address: 74 Jamieson-Licola Road 3723 Jamieson, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.diamantina-tour.com.au

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25.01.2022 Interesting read, but sadly no-one has any solution as to how to actually control this weed that has spread right across the arid zone.

24.01.2022 Those who travelled with us in the Simpson Desert in the 1990s would occasionally have had the good fortune to visit one of the Mikiri - traditional waterholes.

23.01.2022 Roadhouse on the Ann Beadell Highway is open, but not to the Eastern Staters.

21.01.2022 Vale Tom Brinkworth.

20.01.2022 Diamantina were fortunate two years ago to spend a week in Western Queensland with Bush Heritage visiting Night Parrot sites. This is such good news. I am confident there are more locations for Night Parrots in the arid zone, it is simply that they are so difficult to locate, only making a couple of calls right on last light at sunset and otherwise being virtually invisible. Martu lands have such a rich biodiversity.

14.01.2022 Our new paper Is Cat Hunting by Indigenous Tracking Experts an effective way to reduce cat impacts on threatened species? has just been published in the journ...al Wildlife Research. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR20035 The paper documents the hunting of feral cats for food on the Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protected Area over a 5-year period and discusses the benefits of maintaining Traditional tracking-based hunting activities for conservation of threatened species such as the bilby and great desert skink. The study found that cat hunting by Indigenous tracking experts was a very efficient method of controlling cats at localised sites. Hunts took an average of 62 minutes per cat and a team of 4 hunters could catch up to 4 cats in one day. Our long-term data suggest threatened species (bilby and great desert skink) have persisted better in areas where there is an active presence of hunters. The ability to follow individual cats known to be hunting at bilby and great desert skink burrows allows this method to be very specific, targeting the individual predators that are pursuing threatened species. Regular hunting provides other co-benefits that contribute to the health of country (improved fire regimes) and the health and wellbeing of people. Finally, acceptance of Indigenous cat hunting as an effective tool for conservation programs provides a new relevance for Indigenous tracking expertise, that helps conserve these traditional skills in an era when there is less reliance on wild caught meat. The paper includes this quote from one of the authors, John West: ‘These days there a lot of cats. They are killing all the desert finches and other things too, like bilbies. We have to save the bilbies. They’re special animals They are only left here and a few other places. That’s why we are hunting and killing the pussycats, but there are more and more, so many now out here. What do they call them? Predators. Because they cheat. And the ones that were here before are now all gone.’ See more

14.01.2022 A gorgeous video by Don Fuchs on this years wildflowers in Botany Bay national park.

12.01.2022 South Australians have never owned more SUVs and 4WD vehicles but they’re not heading out to our stunning outback in big numbers. It’s time to release these ve...hicles from the suburban shopping centre carparks and school drop off zones and get them dusty on our iconic outback tracks. Tourism operators and small businesses throughout the outback are suffering because interstate and overseas visitors who are usually travelling can’t get into SA because of the necessary border restrictions. The Oodnadatta, Birdsville and Strzelecki Tracks are iconic South Australian road trips. My first trip out here was when I was 14 years old and I love the SA outback. It is breathtaking. The tracks are like wide country roads and don’t need a specialist 4WD rig and the first 700km or so is on a sealed road all the way from Adelaide to Marree. So tag a friend and spend the weekend working out who you want to head north with. There are plenty of accommodation options from station stays, free camping, character-filled pubs, cabins and caravan parks. Pack a swag, plenty of water and an extra spare tyre and go and explore this amazing part of the world and find out why people from all around the globe travel to Outback South Australia. #welcomeback #outback

11.01.2022 SURVEY BY RANGERS SHOWS THE THREATENED TJALAPA IS THRIVING ON KIWIRRKURRA IPA Last week the Kiwirrkurra Rangers completed their annual Tjalapa burrow monitoring... surveys at three sites. Tjalapa, the Great Desert Skink is a threatened species that has been lost from many places in the desert due to the impacts of feral cats and fire. But on the Kiwirrkurra IPA, where the rangers hunt the cats, and keep fires small, the number of Tjalapa burrows has been gradually increasing every year. This year the Rangers mapped 78 Tjalapa burrows across three 30 hectare sites, 71 of which had fresh tracks and scats to show that the skinks were still living inside. Nearly all were family burrows with signs of adults, subadults and/or babies in the burrow, indicating several hundred skinks were present within the three sites. There was no sign of feral cats at any of the sites, and none of the burrows had been affected by fire in the past year. We were lucky to have great help from Justina Minor from Kiwirrkurra Remote Community School who was doing work experience with the Rangers and we welcomed our new Men’s Ranger Coordinator Ed Blackwood to the program. We also had a visit from the Highschool Class who set up motion sensor cameras donated by DeadlyScience LTD on three Tjalapa burrows. See more

11.01.2022 Big news indeed.

11.01.2022 Here's some footage of a Man Truck heading up to Well 15 on the Canning to recover a vehicle. The dunes give the old bus a bit of trouble.

11.01.2022 On Friday the Kiwirrkurra students, their families and the Kiwirrkurra Rangers went to Tjutalpi. The students were able to learn about traditional storytelling,... song and dance, for both boys and girls. The rangers are working with Kiwirrkurra students on cultural activities in preparation for our mini Dust-Up. See more

09.01.2022 Interesting article, however the editor is clearly no botanist. The first photo is of Xanthorrhoea, the "grass tree" instead of Dicksonia the "tree fern".

09.01.2022 Such a sad story, the man who discovered the Telfer lode. The interesting bit is the "Sister of Telfer", which he later discovered and took the secret of its location to his grave...

06.01.2022 Anyone who has travelled on our Canning Stock Route expedition would remember this footy oval on the Gunbarrel Highway.

06.01.2022 Diamantina are always honoured to spend time in the Bush with Rachel Paltridge and Karen Kate Crossing, amazing women doing amazing work with amazing people.

04.01.2022 Today is National #threatenedspeciesday when we commemorate the death of Australia's last known Tasmanian Tiger in 1936 and raise awareness about other threaten...ed species. We don't want to lose any more of Australia's unique species and Indigenous Rangers are working hard to prevent any further extinctions. On the Kiwirrkurra IPA one of the threatened species we protect is the Tjalapa or Great Desert Skink. Tjalapa have just woken up from their winter hibernation and are busy cleaning out their burrows, finding food and getting ready to breed. At this time of year they are particularly vulnerable to being eaten by predators so it is an important time to do cat control. Last week the Kiwirrkurra Rangers tracked a cat from a Tjalapa burrow and when they dissected it they found the remains of a Great Desert Skink in its stomach! We've found that some cats become specialised on certain prey types so removing this Tjalapa hunter might be protecting a lot more skinks from being eaten in the future. The Kiwirrkurra Rangers will continue to focus their cat hunting on threatened species sites for the rest of this month. See more

03.01.2022 Great Book! Great Bird.

03.01.2022 Australia’s Most Eccentric Bushranger!! In South Australia’s history, it can only claim one genuine bushranger, but he was quite remarkable he was the only one to pursue his career on the back of an ostrich!! John Francis Peggotty was born in County Limerick Ireland in 1864. He was apparently nearly three months premature, his father wrote to his uncle (who had migrated to Australia) at the time saying there was little hope the boy would live...He cannot tip the scales aga...Continue reading

01.01.2022 Thanks to these wonderful volunteers for keeping the tracks clean of rubbish. No thanks to the selfish users who put it there in the first place. Great Work!!

01.01.2022 Marree racecourse. Wet wet wet...