by Paula Peeters | Nov 25, 2019 | Projects, Wildlife illustration
This week a buzzing crowd of ecologists will descend on Launceston, Tasmania, for the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia. These meetings always have a great vibe. And how can they not? Terrific things happen when you bring together a vibrant bunch...
by Paula Peeters | Nov 22, 2019 | Beechmont Nature Journal, Cartoons
I’m finding it a bit hard to be cheerful these days. Heat, smoke, prolonged drought and more fires. Frustration at the lack of action on climate change, while its effects are becoming more and more obvious. My beloved Lamington National Park is still closed, so...
by Paula Peeters | Nov 17, 2019 | Letter from Beechmont, Writing
Flame trees, jacarandas and silky oaks, are flowering wildly, against the smoke. Two months since we nearly lost our house in the Binna Burra bushfire, and fires continue to burn all around us. Our lives are saturated with smoke. What has been incinerated to end up in...
by Paula Peeters | Nov 5, 2019 | Cartoons, Nature journaling, Wildlife illustration
I visited the Barambah Environmental Education Centre (about 50 km west of Gympie, Queensland) back in August. I ran a nature journaling workshop for the staff, and did some field work for a series of illustrations for a little book about the centre. Here are some...
by Paula Peeters | Sep 22, 2019 | Beechmont Nature Journal, Cartoons, Nature journaling
In this cartoon, spring has come to Beechmont, while Binna Burra has become like Shangri-la: mysterious and inaccessible.
