Lisa Gilby

A white barn owl with brown feather accents sits on a branch. Text over the image says: Barn-owl project reducing farmers' reliance on poison to manage rats and mice.

A macadamia farmer is using barn owls - attracted to the farm by nest-boxes set up over a 2-year period - to control rats without poisons. Each breeding season, the owls remove ~1000 rats, avoiding harmful rodenticides that kill native wildlife #ausbird

11.07.2025 05:57 — 👍 50    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 2

Perfect platypus conditions in Maleny this morning 😍 Video by @andrewstafford.bsky.social

11.07.2025 11:49 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Ouch! All the best John

07.04.2025 23:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Endometriosis treatment to be listed on PBS for the first time in 30 years Visanne, also known by the generic name dienogest, will have its cost reduced from more than $800 per year for a course of daily tablets to $380 per year, or around $90 per year for pension and conces...

A bit of background to the Visanne story - it was made available in Australia in March 2015 after extensive lobbying from Syl and Lesley Freedman, who founded EndoActive. You can read about it here - endoactive.org.au/who-we-are/

05.12.2024 00:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's a bit bananas 🍌

01.12.2024 06:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My home office buddy 😻

13.11.2024 02:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Date night at our place 😄

12.11.2024 10:23 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0