Picture yourself back in your university days, living in shared accommodation with a bunch of other students. You may have fond memories of such times: of house parties, of meals involving way too many two-minute noodles of housemates who are great company but are not particularly good at cleaning up. Now imagine one of the […]
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TANIA SUNDRA AND THE JOYS OF EQUINE VET WORK Plenty of young girls around the world are obsessed with horses and pester their parents to buy them one every single day – generally speaking to no avail. Mums and dads probably spend hours, if not days, repeatedly explaining they do not have the space, time, […]
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The summer of 2019-2020 will long be remembered in Australia as a dark and desperate time. Mere months before the world was engulfed by a global pandemic, much of our country was aflame. By the end of January 2020, more than 5 million hectares of land had been burned in New South Wales alone, including […]
Continue ReadingIt’s not uncommon to miss the company of animals when travelling. But a severe case of “dogsickness” changed the career direction of forest scientist Cynthia (Cindy) Karsten. “I went to work in Montana with the AmeriCorps program Montana Conservation Corps, travelled a lot with the job and couldn’t have a dog,” she said. “Thus I […]
Continue ReadingVeterinarian Jan Allen has had a varied career, working around Australia and the South Pacific, but it is her work in Indigenous communities which she has found most rewarding. Allen is currently the One Health Program Manager for Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities (AMRRIC). The organisation is a national, non-profit charity founded […]
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