Head outside and venture Off Track for a show about the great outdoors. Listen to the environment discussed by the people who live in and love it.
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Saturday 24 Sep 2016
It’s as if this ship has invisible cat’s whiskers extending off her hull. Pricked and at the ready, they sense the weather, the temperature, the density of the atmosphere, the salinity and map the course ahead.
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Saturday 17 Sep 2016
Sometimes, there is tension between being an animal lover and doing what is best for the environment.
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Saturday 10 Sep 2016
With one leaf, one potato-like tuber and one flower when the time is right, the Yellow-lip Spider-orchid is one of the rarest plants in Australia. It is also sexually deceptive.
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Saturday 3 Sep 2016
Cheap supermarket orchids may act as a 'gateway drug' to the exotic and challenging world of orchidelirium.
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Saturday 27 Aug 2016
The northern hopping-mouse is a master builder. It's barely big enough to fill the palm of your hand, yet it digs metres worth of burrows with multiple secret entrances AND it cleans up after itself.
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Saturday 20 Aug 2016
There are fewer numbats than there are pandas or orangutans in the world, and keeping the captive breeding numbats in peak condition is a full time job.
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The entries have closed and it's time to announce the name of the new nudibranch species.
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Saturday 13 Aug 2016
Behind the scenes at Perth Zoo is a room full of small glass aquariums. And within each enclosure is one of Australia's rarest marsupials. The dibbler.
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Saturday 6 Aug 2016
It is covered in flamboyantly coloured sausages, it’s a hermaphrodite, breathes through its skin, goes through metamorphoses AND this new species needs a name.
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Saturday 30 Jul 2016
The largest rodent in Australia is amphibious, fulfils the same niche as an otter and could be used to get rid of the pest black rat. AND, it's got a golden, fluffy belly. It's the water rat.
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Saturday 23 Jul 2016
Imagine Melbourne without the bay, Perth without the beach and Sydney without the Harbour.
Imagine if there was no standing water in your town.
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Saturday 16 Jul 2016
A lazy long weekend sail turns sour when home made concrete boat ends up on the rocks in regional South Australia. Does everyone make it out alive?
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She decided she'd sail to a bamboo flute summer school in England. And she'd do it in a plywood boat.
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Saturday 9 Jul 2016
One was caught in 2010. Just one. A tiny, nine centimetre long mouse, with whiskers like a spray of fireworks and a white, fluffy belly. Since then, none.
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Saturday 2 Jul 2016
‘One thing we do know, is that if you removed all microbes from planet earth all other life would cease to exist.’
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Saturday 25 Jun 2016
The migratory birds have flown about 10,000kms all the way to the arctic for food, sex, and to hatch the next generation of flying machines.
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