Rufous Bettong are extinct in Victoria. Where can you see them roaming near Melbourne? Find out in this issue of Indigenotes which you can view here. Come to IFFA's excursion on August 16th to see them yourself!

Also in this issue:

• Nature Deficit Disorder - President's Letter from Brian Bainbridge
• Hawksbill Turtles on the Great Barrier Reef - from Robert Bender
  

Here is the latest issue of Indigenotes.  It features:

• the upside of the destructive winds in April in the President's Letter from Brian Bainbridge
• a conversation between our suburban correspondent and his tetchy indigenous garden in Letter from the Suburbs
• the influential conservationist Aldo Leopold features in a review of his biography "Aldo Leopold a Fierce Green Fire" and his own book "A Sand County Almanac"
• the efforts of residents at Belgrave to keep their suburb Echidna-friendly from Vivien Freshwater
• the frustrations of an indigenous gardener from Trevallyn in Tasmania, from Paul Schluter
• a Carpet Python to colour in, and a quiz for kids
• Fantastic photography from Mick Connolly and others, including a colour insects centrefold.

This glorious glossy issue of Indigenotes (Volume 19 no 1, January 2008) includes

• a letter from IFFA's President Brian Bainbridge about Echidnas and how they seem to be becoming more common in the suburbs,
• a humorous "Letter from the Suburbs",
• a report on IFFA's field trip to the Dandenongs, with a glorious full colour centrefold poster of the trip,
• an extract from Richard Howitt's book published in 1845 on his adventures settling in Melbourne.
• a kids page with a picture of Murray Cod to colour in and a little quiz about Murray Cod.

You can download the issue here.

A high resolution jpeg of the centrefold poster can be downloaded here (2.4Mb), or as a desktop image here (0.5Mb).

The November issue of Indigenotes is available here.  The fantastic new layout is thanks to Mick Connolly.

Indigenotes 18-2 is out! 

Download here (pdf file 800Kb)

Details inside:

• IFFA's AGM is coming up on 23 September with a talk from Graeme Lorimer
• A Spring Field Trip to Bush's Paddock and Mount Cottrell on 21 October 

Lots of news too:

This yummy colour issue contains the following:

• Freezing in Pennsylvania by Randall Robinson
• Parrots Feather Ecology by Mark Toomey
• Epsom Grasslands/The Grange Photoessay by Mick Connolly
• Caroline Springs Plains Grasslands
• Global Restoration Network Launched
• Reviews: Riverways, Leaf Litter
• Letter from the Suburbs

Download the pdf file here.

Anyone with stories, short articles or photos or line art which they would like to submit for publication in IFFA's newsletter Indigenotes should email them to the editor ASAP.

Below are listed all of the issues of Indigenotes published since 1986.

Where we have an electronic version, you can access it by clicking on the issue. Please note that up until volume 15, graphics were pasted in by hand (literally) so the electronic versions before volume 15 don't have any graphics in them.

If anyone is interested they could scan the graphics for each issue and place them in the file.

Fantastic edition with info on a range of stuff -

Finally here is the second edition of Indigenotes for 2006. Sorry about the delay.

Contents include: