Daintree Rainforest Camera Traps - August 2021 - accrued 87-cassowary sightings, 26-dingoes and 80-feral pigs.  Against the cumulative monthly average, cassowary numbers rose by 22%, dingoes were 23% down and feral-pigs also dropped by 37%.  Against August of the preceding year, cassowaries were up 28%, whereas dingoes fell by 30% and feral-pig sightings diminished by 22%. Image highlights from Camera Traps -

Daintree Rainforest Camera Traps - July 2021 - accrued 81-cassowary sightings, 48-dingoes and 57-feral pigs.  Against the cumulative monthly average, cassowary numbers rose by 15%, dingoes were 35% higher and feral-pigs dropped by 54%.  Against July of the preceding year, cassowaries were only 7% fewer, whereas dingo sightings skyrocketed by 343%, whilst feral-pig sightings fell by 53%. Image highlights from Camera Traps

Daintree Rainforest Camera Traps - June 2021, accrued 81-cassowary sightings, 38-dingoes and 119-feral pigs.  Against the cumulative monthly average, cassowary numbers were 16% up, dingoes were 13% up and feral-pigs were down by 12%.  Against June of the preceding year, cassowaries were 62% up, dingo numbers were 111% higher and feral-pig sightings increased by 45%. Image highlights from Camera Traps - June

Daintree Rainforest Camera Traps - May 2021, accrued 56-cassowary sightings, 29-dingoes and 84-feral pigs.  Against the cumulative monthly average, cassowary numbers were 23% down, dingoes were 13% down and feral-pigs were also down by 17%.  Against May of the preceding year, however, cassowaries were 69% up, dingo numbers were 71% higher and feral-pig sightings decreased by 12.5%.  Seven, of the twelve camera traps, failed

Daintree Rainforest Camera Traps - April 2021, accrued 40-cassowary sightings, 7-dingoes and 108-feral pigs.  Against the cumulative monthly average, cassowary numbers were 42% down, dingoes were 79% down and feral-pigs were also down by 22%.  Against April of the preceding year, however, cassowaries were 250% up, whilst dingo numbers were 70% lower and feral-pig sightings had also decreased by 163%.  As nine of the

Camera Traps across March 2021 accrued 43-cassowaries, 7-dingoes and 101-feral pigs.  Against the cumulative monthly average, cassowary numbers were 40% down, dingoes were 80% down and feral-pigs were 29% down.  Against March 2020, cassowaries were 38%-down, dingo numbers were 30% lower and feral-pigs had also decreased by 61%; however, 9 of the 12 camera traps failed to work for either half or all of

Camera Traps across February 2021 accrued 111-cassowaries, 16-dingoes and 276-feral pigs.  Against the cumulative monthly average, cassowary numbers were 150% up, dingoes were 43% down and feral-pigs were 195% up.  Against February 2020, cassowaries were 12%-down, dingo numbers were 533% higher and feral-pigs had also increased by 150%. Image highlights from February

Camera Traps - January 2021 accrued 153-cassowaries, 8-dingoes and 282-feral pigs.  Against the cumulative monthly average, cassowary numbers were 237% up, dingoes were 81% down and feral-pigs were 231% up.  Against January 2020, cassowaries were 130%-up, dingoes were even and feral-pig numbers grew by 170%. The recent decision to collect data twice-per-month avoided the chance of a camera's zero-monthly-return, but it also revealed 5-cameras

Data collected across 2020, from the twelve Daintree Rainforest Camera Traps, captured 772-cassowaries from 505 events, 528-dingoes from 217 events and 1,462-feral-pigs from 483 events.  In terms of congregation, for every 2 cassowaries, there were 3-dingoes and 4-feral-pigs snapped and within territorial constraints, cassowaries were significantly more perambulatory than both dingoes and feral-pigs.  Unfortunately, this does not provide reliable data on population comparisons, but

Seven Worlds - One Planet The first episode of Sir David Attenborough’s new series commenced in the heart of the world’s longest surviving rainforest.  Here, Big Bertha, Grand Dame of Cassowaries, reigns supreme.  She is almost 2-metres in height when she pumps herself up to her full height to impress or to defend her domain. The vision of stately old-growth rainforest of