Off Track

The greater glider is listed as vulnerable in Australia and it moves through the tree tops eating eucalyptus leaves without a sound.

Feeding the birds can heal a multitude of human wounds.

Some people are even drawn to the practice of bird feeding to atone for the perceived sins of humanity.

With more canals than Venice, Queensland’s Gold Coast is a highly altered environment, where remnants of untouched vegetation are few and far between. Yet, tourists still flock there seeking to experience nature first hand among the theme parks, high rises and nightclubs.

This is a classic Off Track handpicked from the archives for your listening pleasure.

Jodi Rowley is a frog detective from the Australian Museum and she’s sewing together a patchwork of clues to try to find the peppered tree frog in the New England Tablelands.

{For RN Summer we're playing the best programs from the RN archives, and this one first aired in November, 2016}

Fly-in to a place where the earth's ancient geological past and the most cutting-edge computing technology collide. A place where taking a picture of the dawn of time is almost a reality.

{For RN Summer we're playing the best programs of the year, and this one first aired in April, 2017}