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Image © Ghislain Bardout / Sea fan coral in the mesophotic levels of the Coral Sea, east of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.

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Published by Wildlife Queensland, our quarterly, 48-page full-colour Wildlife Australia magazine features articles by experts, researchers and award-winning natural history authors and showcases the photography of some of Australia’s most talented photographers.

Inside each issue you’ll find:

Inspiring articles, written by leading experts in conservation
The latest breakthroughs and discoveries from our network of researchers
Stunning images from celebrated wildlife photographers
Insights into conservation projects straight from the field
Challenging debates on nature and conservation’s hottest topics
Spotlights on the threatened species and habitats we simply can’t afford to lose

Available in print and digital formats. All proceeds from Wildlife Australia support Wildlife Queensland’s crucial conservation projects.

Preview Wildlife Australia Winter 2024

A look inside: Wildlife Australia Winter 2024 edition

How do we prevent ‘deep’ trouble’ in our oceans?

PLENTY has been written, and spoken, and filmed about the problems and challenges facing the Great Barrier Reef.

Coral bleaching, poor water quality from the ‘run-off’ of civilization, persistently high ocean temperatures, floating mountains of microplastics doing untold damage to wildlife — there’s plenty to be concerned about. These are complex problems developing into deeper problems.

A group of expert scuba diving scientific researchers asked those questions another way, deciding they needed to examine the deepest parts of reefs in the Coral Sea. They wanted to see what the baseline might be for finding the depths of the real challenges facing reefs worldwide.

This record-breaking deep-diving scientific expedition — it went deeper, at 152m, than ever before — researched mesophotic coral ecosystems in the Australian Coral Sea territory and the Great Barrier Reef.

The expedition was led by Australian Museum curator of fishes, Dr Yi-Kai Tea, and the California Academy of Sciences USA curator of fishes, Dr Luiz Rocha. In the process, the team caught examples of prehistoric era aquatic life never seen before. This certainly was deep space exploration of another earthly dimension.

It is just one of the inspirational marine wildlife stories in this edition — like the phenomenon of schools of hammerhead sharks annually gathering at popular public surf beaches — and there is plenty to excite wildlife lovers on land as well.

Take the research into Australia’s Age of Monotremes, a mere 100 million years ago.

While Australia has always been unusually blessed with marsupials, recent opalised fossil discoveries reveal that, previously, we were blessed with large warm-blooded egg-laying mammals whose descendants are today’s platypus and echidna.

Yes, Australian Museum’s Professor Tim Flannery’s team discovered an ‘echidnapus’.

It’s wildlife wonderment in this winter edition of Wildlife Australia.

Wildlife Australia is dedicated to ensuring we offer our advertisers unique advertising options that are relevant to our readership. This ensures Wildlife Australia is enjoyable for our customers and provides an effective marketing platform for our partners.

Why advertise with Wildlife Australia?

As a print and digital wildlife magazine with its own mobile app and web page, Wildlife Australia provides a unique opportunity for businesses to reach nature lovers and conservationists through a variety of channels.

We reach a national network of close to 10,000 environmentally aware people. This includes:

print and digital subscribers
university, school and library subscribers
social media and Wildlife Queensland member contacts.

Advertising rates

For more information about Wildlife Australia advertising rates and specs, please download our Media Tool Kit.

For further advertising enquiries, please email advertising@wildlife.org.au.

Want to write for Wildlife Australia? Well, you’re in good company. Many leading scientists and award-winning authors have contributed over the magazine’s almost six decades of quality natural history publishing.

Benefits of writing for Wildlife Australia

Promote your work to peers, conservationists, naturalists, citizen scientists and everyday enthusiasts from around the globe.
Hone your popular writing skills with the help of a friendly, professional editor.
Authors receive a PDF of the finished article and a complimentary print copy of the issue.

Articles

Most articles are written by experts or professionals and are provided pro bono, as the publisher is not-for-profit, but all nature lovers are invited to pitch an article by submitting a brief proposal to the editor.

Submission guidelines:

The editor will provide a clear brief and a 4–8 week schedule for the final draft copy.
Article submissions should be between 1,000 to 2,000 words in length. A short biography of the writer is requested. Preferred formatting is Microsoft Word or any text-only format.
Use a first-person narrative style for feature articles.
Use sensory storytelling (plenty of description of sights, sounds and smells) to engage readers and give them an idea of what it’s like out there in the field.
Articles should excite readers about science and wildlife, raise important conservation topics, and reassure subscribers that writers like you — and not-for-profits like us — are focused on protecting the continent’s biodiversity.

Copyright:

All authors retain shared copyright. This means you can later submit your article to other publications, whether online or in print, or upload it to your own website or online portfolio.

Wildlife Australia retains joint copyright of articles and sometimes shares content with conservation or advertising partners for free, purely for promotional purposes. Wildlife Australia does not receive any payment for content sharing and is committed to protecting the privacy and rights of its contributors.

Book reviews and excerpts

Please contact us about the possibility of including a book review or excerpt of your work.

Product reviews

If you have a product you would like positively reviewed, please pitch it to the editor at editor@wildlife.org.au.
We prefer eco-friendly products with a value of $15 or more, although we also review smaller/inexpensive items on occasion.

We remain grateful to all of our Wildlife Australia contributors for enabling us to continue making a difference.

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