If you like Off Track, then you're going to love this new podcast, The Real Thing. Two mates travel the length and width of the country looking for the stories of REAL Australia, and in this episode, Mike and Tim travel to Tarcutta, a place of deep significance to the Australian trucking community.

There's a problem. The seeds won't germinate and the plant is endangered. Could the answer lie in a heady mix of gauze gift bags, heat torture, forced smoke inhalation and emu digestive juices? This is a repeat episode from the Off Track archives.

Living out almost their entire life within cow pats, dung beetles are the unlikely heroes of both biological control AND Australian barbecues. This is a repeat episode from the Off Track archives.

Dressed like an abalone diver in a rainforest ravine, the search for Tasmanian sapphire involves a lolly-scoop, a crow bar and physical endurance beyond the norm. This is a repeat episode from the Off Track archives.

The water turns red and smells of fish. It's the blood of the prey of a pod of Orcas. This is a repeat episode from the Off Track archives.

For more than three decades, this man has spent hundreds of hours each year with his forehead pressed to a plane window counting birds. It's one of the longest running and largest wildlife surveys on the planet.

Every day, tiny brightly coloured birds are offering a critique of environmental management, if only we could understand what they were saying.

This program has been selected from the rich archives of Off Track 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 and find the peppered tree frog in the New England Tablelands.

We love them, we fear them and we probably don’t know as much about the Australian Magpie as we should, considering their range covers most of the continent and they live out their life in our front yards.