The Rescue Project
Kind acts of environmental rescue - what drives us to do this work and how do we remain hopeful? From planting a seed, to rejuvenating a rain forest, saving a bird to a lifetime helping injured tree kangaroos - in some way, does land and animal care rescue us? Audio documentary maker and host Gretchen Miller has a fascination for the psychological reasons for caring for the natural world and for the remarkable people who do so.
Episodes
We’re in the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland. This documentary feature immerses you in the wettest part of the driest continent on earth, a tiny patch of emerald green. A World Heritage area. We’re walking through the landscape with people collaborating on interconnected projects – looking after tree kangaroos whose fragmented forest habitat needs re connecting, finding seeds for propagation, replanting great tracts of ...
Home Ground can mean a place you live, a place you’ve developed a relationship with over time, or further ranging territory you travel across in your day to day. Here we explore three stories of caring for the land. We’re travelling to farm country near Tumut, NSW, then across the Blue Mountains to a hidden valley and then to the Brisbane suburbs, as a simple pile of grass clippings threaten a small patch of local bush. We hear fro...
The deep interactions between humans and other creatures are captured as we spend some time at a wombat rehabilitation centre and meet the wombats themselves, hear about how a tiny kangaroo joey helped heal a family and community after unimaginable loss, and make the acquaintance of a very unusual bird for this part of the world – a southern giant petrel. We hear from:
Lyn Obern, wombat carer: Mudsey’s rescue and happy ending,
June...
How a community saved a river, cleaned up an estuary, what art reveals that the eye doesn’t see, and what is the meaning of saving just one tree? We hear from:
Susan Doran, activist: the history of the Friends of the Mongarlowe.
Luise Manning, landcarer: creating a landcare group and Turning the Tide on Litter.
Michael Fitzjames, artist: painting in Bullio, NSW.
Margaret Storey, artist: the tiny Brown Dust seeds of her favourite bottl...
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