Big Sky Country
Episodes
Oceans of change: Turtles, blue carbon & whale poo
05 Oct 2025
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Send us a textFrom plankton to humpbacks, ocean life is riding massive waves of change – including ocean warming, rising sea levels, acidification a...
Traditional knowledge: Healing Country and sharing Indigenous wisdom
21 Sep 2025
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Send us a textTraditional Custodians have recorded sea level changes, volcanic shifts and meteoric events for over 10,000 years through story, song, d...
Working together: Gondwana Link, Aboriginal land, and sustainable farming
07 Sep 2025
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Send us a textThe landscapes of Southwest Western Australia smack you in the face with their ecological richness, according to Gondwana Link CEO Keith...
Surviving the heat: Climate change in deserts, numbats and knowledge
24 Aug 2025
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Send us a textOur planet is getting hotter – and deserts, covering 41% of the Earth and nearly 20% of Australia, are on the frontline. What will the...
Restoring nature: Platypus comeback, oyster reefs and habitat corridors
10 Aug 2025
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Send us a textWhen nature is destroyed and removed, can we ever truly restore it? Across Australia, scientists and communities are sharing powerful st...
Trees & Climate: Bob Brown, cultural connection, and why forests matter
27 Jul 2025
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Send us a textOn an island at the edge of the Earth – Lutruwita/Tasmania – Tiahni sits down with legendary environmentalist Bob Brown. Among flowe...
Big Sky Country Season Three Trailer
17 Jul 2025
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Send us a textPrepare for Big Sky Country Season 3, our most expansive season yet. In six captivating new episodes, we take you down the backroads of ...
Learning Garawa
10 Apr 2023
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Send us a textIt’s a two-day drive from Darwin to Robinson River, on Garawa Country in the NT, just south of the Gulf of Carpentaria. While the road...
The return of the right-way burn
10 Apr 2023
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Send us a textIn 2021, Wiradjuri Elder Uncle James Ingram and Bush Heritage’s Aboriginal Partnerships Manager and Yuin Walbunja woman, Vikki Parsley...
Farmer wants some biodiversity
10 Apr 2023
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Send us a textIt might seem strange for an ecologist to spend time on pastoral lands, but that’s exactly what Imogen Semmler does. She ‘meanders’...
People have the power
10 Apr 2023
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Send us a textWhat does it take to restore a native woodland? A bucket, hammer, trowel, seedlings and a whole heap of people power. These ingredients ...
A snail of a time
10 Apr 2023
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Send us a textAmongst inland wulo (rainforest) and on islands in the North Kimberley, Wunambal Gaambera Country, lives an unassuming group of animals....
Call me by your birdsong
10 Apr 2023
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Send us a textCan you imagine nature without sound? No bellbirds, or lyrebirds. No bleating frogs or whispering leaves. No nature’s call to tell the...
Big Sky Country Season Two Trailer
02 Mar 2023
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Send us a textJoin us in April 2023 for season two of Big Sky Country, bringing stories from the bush to wherever you get your podcasts.Join conservat...
The sandalwood tree
30 Mar 2022
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Send us a textIf every scent tells a story, the Australian Sandalwood Tree (Santalum Spicatum) must be a library; rich with ecological, cultural and e...
Clouds build up, fruits flower, Indigenous seasons change
16 Mar 2022
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Send us a textWhen you think of the seasons, does Spring begin on the first day of September? Summer on the first of December? Or is it the Wet season...
Red fins, blue eyes, can't lose
02 Mar 2022
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Send us a textWhen there's one single population of a species left in the world, what do you do? Do you let it go extinct? Or do you do everythin...
Where there's water, there's life
09 Feb 2022
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Send us a textNaree Station Reserve on Budjiti country in New South Wales might look dry on most days of the year, but when the water arrives, by rain...
The secret life of phascogales
02 Feb 2022
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Send us a textClimb up the tree. Open the nest box. And look inside the lives of Red-tailed Phascogales. These small arboreal marsupials - with their...
From little trees, climate resilience grows
26 Jan 2022
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Send us a textThe climate has always changed. But in recent years, these changes have gotten drastically faster and more noticeable. So much so that, ...
Trailer
07 Jan 2022
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Send us a textBig Sky Country takes you deep into the bush to hear the sounds of hope. Join conservation organisation Bush Heritage Australia to tra...