In August 1864, three children wandered into the harsh Australian Mallee scrub. Nine-year-old Isaac Cooper, his seven-year-old sister Jane, and four-year-old Frank Duff were lost when a thunderstorm washed away all traces of their passage. Officials soon abandoned the search, presuming they had perished. Local residents enlisted three Indigenous trackers from the Wotjobaluk people, Dick-a-Dick, Jerry, and Fred. The trackers soon picked up the trail and found the children on the ninth day, huddle

Things not to do in Australia: Bulldoze bushland, post it online, and expect no backlash. A farmer in NSW cleared native scrub for livestock, but this “useless land” could be vital habitat for threatened species 🐦🦇🌿 We don’t need to destroy nature to grow food. We’ve already got 50m hectares of degraded land. 📢 ACF has reported it to the environment department. | Australian Conservation Foundation