A culturally significant gesture between Yarnangu Traditional Owners and DBCA is now on public display, with precious glass artworks exhibited at DBCA headquarters.

In June 2025, LANDSCOPE magazine celebrated 40 years of sharing knowledge and delighting its readers. A celebration event in September brought together contributors and advocates in honour of the ongoing legacy of Western Australia’s parks, wildlife and conservation magazine.

Seed production areas on the south coast are providing new hope for flora species on the mountaintops of Stirling Range National Park.

Across Western Australia’s vast rangelands, life thrives in remarkable and resilient forms.  

In the face of change, one skilled and passionate teacher has capitalised on a new opportunity: to showcase our State’s natural beauty to students across WA. The result is a powerful bridge between real-world environmental stories and structured curriculum outcomes. 

What happens to insects and other invertebrates exposed to prescribed burns in the jarrah forests of south-west Western Australia? Do they survive, and if so, how? Three decades of invertebrate sampling in jarrah forest has led to the discovery that many surface-active invertebrates survive in small patches of unburned habitat. These act as vital refugia, allowing invertebrate communities to survive fire and recolonise the forest. 

During a national survey of desert wildlife, the Wiluna Martu Rangers searched Matuwa Kurrara Kurrara National Park for animal tracks and discovered tracks from a surprising species.

Western Australia is home to an extraordinary diversity of terrestrial orchids. But with many species under threat, one Kings Park Research Scientist has devoted her career to conserving these native beauties.

Managing large, intense and complex bushfires that threaten lives and homes is all in a day’s work for Allison Donovan – Western Australia’s first and only female Level 3 incident controller.

It’s now easier than ever to immerse yourself in Yellagonga Regional Park’s natural beauty with new accessible facilities, designed in partnership with Traditional Owners to minimise disturbance to these wonderful wetlands.

Despite being a large and formidable predator, the Pilbara olive python rather prefers a quiet life. So quiet that before the advent of modern radio transmitters, it had been challenging to track its ecology. Dr David Pearson shares how modern technology has unlocked some of its secrets.

If you’ve ever basked in the warm Perth summer sun, enjoying the beauty of the Swan-Canning Estuary, you may not have realised that just beneath the surface lie vast stretches of thriving seagrass meadows. These meadows are the most valuable habitats in the waterway, teeming with life and performing key functions to maintain the health of the estuary.   

Until recently, there were only two recognised subspecies of brushtail possums in Western Australia. Recent scientific research into genetic relationships between brushtail possum populations throughout Australia concluded there is indeed a third subspecies that calls WA home. 

The heritage-listed Ningaloo Coast stretches more than 300 kilometres along Western Australia’s remote western shoreline and is a critical nesting ground for the endangered loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta). Among many natural predators of the species is the golden ghost crab (Ocypode convexa), which is having a staggering impact on turtle nests and hatchlings. 

Maritime law defines flotsam and jetsam as debris in the water, either unintentionally as the result of an accident (flotsam), or deliberately thrown overboard from a vessel in distress to lighten the load (jetsam). A lifelong love of the Houtman Abrolhos islands and marine areas near Geraldton led Pia Boschetti, who as a child was fascinated by the ‘treasures’ that washed up on the shore, to spearhead a movement that turns this marine debris into art.

Deep in the ancient forests of the Walpole Wilderness, in the far south-west of Australia, new mountain biking and hiking trails are capturing the imagination of trail users.  

Western Australia has a rich diversity of bird life, often associated with melodious songbirds such as the Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen), splendid fairy-wren (Malurus splendens) and New Holland honeyeaters (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae), but there is another, sometimes overlooked dimension to our birdlife – our diverse and abundant waterbirds.  

The rugged reality of nature is tantalisingly close for those who work in the regions of the Parks and Wildlife Service. From conserving endangered flora to responding to bushfires, being immersed in community and working on Country is an experience unlike any other for participants in the Graduate Development Program.