Eco Radio

Hosts: Zack (He/They), Issy (She/They) &Dave (He/him) Dave returns! This week, we had an interview with Rebecca Appleton from Bat Conservation and Rescue Queensland about the surge in flying fox paralysis syndrome cases recently. We go through a couple of news stories. Then Zack delivered his poem, an ode to the toad, and then chatted about Issy and Zack’s toad busting adventure from this past...

Hosts: Zack (He/They) & Issy (She/They) On this episode, Issy and Zack went through 5 of the big news headlines from the past week. The benefits of removing cane toads from the environment and why it’s important for you to get involved was discussed ahead of the Great Cane Toad Bust 2025 beginning on January the 18th. We also talked about the common death adder native to South-East Queensland...

Hosts: Zack (He/They) & Issy (She/They) Eco Radio is back after a Christmas break! On this episode, Issy and Zack went through the approval of several new mines by federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek late last year and spoke of the David Crisafulli interview on 7.30 the previous night. We also talk about the decline of monarch butterflies in Australia plus the economics of taking cons...

Hosts: Zack (He/They) On today's episode Zack had a chat with Costa Georgiadis, the host of gardening Australia about the current gardening meta and the release of his new book called Costa’s Garden Flowers. Costa will be touring the east coast of Australia from late December to mid January including a stop at the Food Connect Shed in Salisbury on the 3rd of January which is guaranteed to be a fan...

Hosts: Zack (He/They) and Vi (She/They) On today's episode we had a chat with Jutta Godwin, the organiser of Brisbane’s Big Butterfly Count about a workshop on blues and coppers, butterflies of the family Lycaenidae occurring this coming weekend. We also touched on some of the news including the CSIRO’s GenCost report on the viability of nuclear power plus Bushcare Roundup!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saturday 1...

Hosts: Zack (He/They) and Issy (She/They) On today's episode Zack played an interview he conducted with Dr Kit Prendergast, a native bee scientist and science communicator with the moniker of the Bee Babette. We also had a brief chat about our native blue banded bees and why they are good and cool. Bushcare Roundup!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Friday 6th 5:30 - 8:30 - Beaudesert Landcare Cane Toad Tadpole Trappi...

Host: Zack (He/They) In today’s program, Zack spoke to Kelsi Taylor from Watergum who is an invasive species officer and the lead organiser of the great cane toad bust which is scheduled to run from the 18th to 26th of January 2025. Zack also spoke about his recent frogging adventure plus why cane toads are kind of interesting and cool, outside of their rampant destruction of the Australian enviro...

Hosts: Zack (He/They) & Issy (She/They) In this episode we had a conversation with EK Rose from the Food Connect Foundation about the SEQ Food Summit that happened at the end of July. We also had a chat about sequential hermaphrodites - animals that change sex from male to female or vice versa during their lifetime. Bushcare Roundup!! Saturday 23rd 8:00 - 10:00 - N4C Bushcare Site Tours: Tarra...

Hosts: Zack (He/They) & Issy (She/They) Today on the show we talked about the Giant Burrowing Cockroaches native only to Queensland plus the discovery of a beetle larvae capable of eating polystyrene. Andrew Bartlett also conducted an interview with John Tasker, the president of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-72201-9 https://rgsq.org.au...

Hosts: Zack (He/They) Today on the show we are talking to Anthony Gough from the Queensland Conservation Council about their plans following on from the Queensland election and later on we spoke to Andy Paine about the Boeing protest trial. But first up, it we talk all about frog ID week. Wendy Downes from Slow Food Brisbane to tell us the importance of slow food over fast food and later in the sh...

Hosts: Dave (He/Him) and Zack (He/They) Today on the show we want to talk about spooky things, we are talking about Australian Cryptids! We will talk to Maurice Quirk an academic who has written about the bunyip and other cryptids and later in the show we will have an organiser for the rally for native forests come into the studio. 🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the full episode, you can liste...

Hosts: Dave (He/Him) & Zack (He/They) Today on the show we are talking to Wendy Downes from Slow Food Brisbane to tell us the importance of slow food over fast food and later in the show we will talk to the Quoll Seekers Network Project Manager, Matt Cecil, about how we can get involved in helping Quolls. Further Reading: https://www.slowfoodbrisbane.com/ https://wildlife.org.au/our-work/conse...