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From late 2017 articles will be available in .pdf format as complete issues of The Natural News.

June 2024: We have started adding earlier editions dating from May 2017 in reverse order. So far 3 older editions have been added.

• No. 87 - May 2024 (forthcoming)
  • Revegetation at Fossil Bluff - Peter Lawrence
  • Smallest ever liverwort? - Tom Thekathyil
  • Eponyms—why are we still naming wildlife after people? - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 86 - December 2023 (528 kB)
  • Tasmaniomyxa umbilicata – a new genus and species of myxomycete from Tasmanaia - Sarah Lloyd
  • The farmer and the flower: a fable - Bob Mesibov
  • A case of mistaken identity - Tom Thekathyil
  • Genetic sequencing and iNaturalist - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 85 - August 2023 (505 kB)
  • Of Ancient Origins: The Family Proteaceae - Philip Milner
  • Hibbs pyramid - Richard Ashby
  • Tasmaniomyxa umbilicata, a new genus of myxomycete - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 84 - April 2023 (572 kB)
  • Fauna (Footage of animals using natural areas) Camera - Simon van der Veen
  • Spyridium obcordatum at Hawk Trap Hill - update November 2022 - Phil Collier
  • Evening with the Birds, Tasmanian Arboretum 16 February 2023 - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 83 - December 2022 (704 kB)
  • As cute as a cunjevoi - Rod Mcqueen
  • Smthton Sewage Ponds - Richard Ashby
  • Solastalgia - a new and growing issue - Ian Ferris

• No. 82 - August 2022 (456 kB)
  • The management of small reserves: implications for small marsupials - Philip Milner
  • Fire regimes - Ian Ferris
  • Robins 2020 - update - Sarah Lloyd & Hazel Britton
  • Congratulations Phil Collier

• No. 81 April/May 2022 (520 kB)
  • Lake Peddar - Richard Ashby
  • Venom - Sarah Lloyd
  • Figuring out the Lamprodermas - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 80 December 2021 (413 kB)
  • Botanical Art - June Hilder
  • A Trip to Marrawah - Richard Ashby
  • A New Slime Mould Genus? - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 79 August 2021 (555 kB)
  • Mysterious Marshes - Philip Milner
  • Identifying Sun Orchids - Robin Garnett & Phil Collier
  • Keystone Species - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 78 April 2021(342 kB)
  • Tips and Tickles from a U.K. Macrofungi Course - Robin Garnett
  • Heathland Plants and their Fungal Associations - Sarah Lloyd
  • Wildlife at Westbury Reserve - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 77 December 2020 (380 kB)
  • Following in the Footsteps of Michael Sharland and Brigadier Hugh Officer to the Northern Territory - part 2 - Richard Donaghey
  • A Scribble about Scribbles - Ian Ferris
  • CNFN Flame Robin 2020 Project - Hazel Britton
  • Amorous Bluetongues - Sarah Lloyd
  • My Experience with Biological Monitoring - Phil Collier
  • Sugar Gliders - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 76 August 2020 (309 kB)
  • Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea - Hazel Britton
  • Bird observations at 'Feathertop', Summer 2019-2020 - Philip Milner
  • Following in the footsteps of Michael Sharland and Brigadier Hugh Officer to the Northern Territory - Richard Donaghey

• No. 75 April 2020 (356 kB)
  • Towards Carnivory? A Question for the Stylidium - Ian Ferris
  • Beguiled by Galls Part 3 Galls of Tasmania - Rod McQueen
  • Cutting it fine in Costa Rica - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 74 December 2019 (321 kB)
  • Natural Plant Protection - Ian Ferris and Philip Milner
  • Beguiled by Galls, Part 2 - Rod McQueen
  • Fake News - Thismia rodwayi is not a saprophyte - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 73 August 2019 (319 kB)
  • The Sun, the Earth and the platypus - Dr James Macgregor
  • Beguiled by Galls - Rod McQueen

• No. 72 April 2019 (523 kB)
  • Plants of the herblands, Narawntapu National Park - Philip Milner
  • Summary of the fire forum at Campbelltown, August 2018 - Sue Gebicki
  • Tubifera species at Black Sugarloaf - Sarah Lloyd
  • Vale Rob Alliston

• No. 71 December 2018 (516 kB)
  • Plants of Narawntapu National Park - Philip Milner
  • Course on Identifying Fungi in Scotland - Robin Garnett
  • Observations of Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos in Westbury - Martha McQueen
  • Plasmo - a vigorous fungivorous plasmodium - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 70 August 2018 (310 kB)
  • Book Review: Beginner's guide to orchids of northwest Tasmania - Martha McQueen
  • Rodenticides, rodents and raptors - Ron Nagorcka
  • Observations of a Bassian Thrush - Linda Barker
  • Reedy Marsh Conservation Reserve - Sue Gebecki
  • How old? - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 69 April 2018 (339 kB)
  • Wildlife by Kayak - Richard Ashby
  • 2018 Year of the Bird
  • Masked Lapwings - Sarah Lloyd
  • Fluffy the 'Brancher' - Sarah Lloyd
  • The Jacky Winter - Richard Donaghey

• No. 68 - December 2017 (414 kB)
  • The Eastern Barred Bandicoot - Rod McQueen
  • Eastern Barred Bandicoots in the Weegena Area - Jim Nelson
  • Me and the EBB - Ron Nagorcka
  • Hop Bitterpea - Sue Gerbicki
  • Green Rosellas - what do they eat? - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 67 - September 2017 (412 kB)
  • The CNFN Herbarium
  • Newfoundland - Jim Nelson
  • Myxomycetes in the Treeferns - Sarah Lloyd
  • Drained swamp? - Ron Nagorcka

• No. 66 - May 2017 (1.07 MB)
  • Pink Barnacles on Pumice: additional information - Hazel Britton, Sarah Lloyd and Julie Serafin
  • Sixteen Legs - Book Review by Jim Nelson
  • No Birds But Lots of Frogs - Letter to the Editor - Richard Ashby
  • Iridescence - Sarah Lloyd
  • Syridium obcordatum at Hawk Trap Hill - Phil Collier

• No. 65 - January 2017(341 kB)
  • Nature Conservation in Aotearoa New Zealand - June Hilder
  • Some birds of Aoteraroa New Zealand - Sarah Lloyd
  • ECHIDNA extraordinary egg-laying mammal - Book Review by Sue Gebicki
  • Tasmania's only tree orchid - threatened? - Ian Ferris and Philip Milner
  • Habitat conservation for the giant freshwater lobster - Todd Walsh
  • CNFN Life Members: Jim Nelson, Ron Nagorcka and Sarah Lloyd

• No. 64 - September 2016 (661 kB) SPECIAL ISSUE - DROUGHTS, FIRES AND 'STORMAGEDDONS': THE ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF EXTEME WEATHER
  • Are the 2016 Highland fires a sign of things to come? - Nick Fitzgerald
  • Impact of 2016 fires on Mole Creek karst - Deb Hunter
  • Damned fauna - Sarah Lloyd
  • Soil Biology 2 - Sue Gebicki

• No. 63 - April 2016 (678 kB)
  • Campynema lineare, neither lily nor iris - Phil Collier
  • Pink barnacles on pumice - Hazel Britton & Julie Serafin
  • Platypus health and conservation research in the Inglis River catchment - James Macgregor
  • Soil Biology 1 - Sue Gebicki

• No. 62 - December 2015 (641 kB)
  • A fallen Stringybark - Sarah Lloyd
  • The feathered tribes of Van Diemen’s Land - book review - Jim Nelson
  • Lesser Wanderer - Hazel Britton & Alison Parks
  • Tiny Worlds - Sarah Lloyd
  • Sue’s garden - a painting - Jo Lawrence
  • Herbicides for roadside management - Herbert Staubmann

• No. 61 - August 2015 (645 kB)
  • Adventures in New Guinea: a dream fulfilled - Richard Donaghey
  • Launceston Environment Centre - Peter Sims
  • A creed for nature lovers - Ellis Troughton
  • Sugar Gliders - Sue Gebicki

• No. 60 - April 2015 (695 kB)
  • Tasmania's bush birds – a bleak outlook - Sarah Lloyd
  • Tasmania’s bush birds – additional observations - Jim Nelson & Richard Ashby
  • Observed connection between European wasps and willow trees - Sue Gebicki

• No. 59 - December 2014 (575 kB)
  • The search for the Golden Fagus 2 - Paul Edwards
  • Making a difference in urban bushland - Hazel Britton & Patricia Ellison
  • Collembola at Black Sugarloaf - Andy Murray
  • where the slime mould creeps: book review - Tom Thekathyil
  • The Cape Broom psyllid
  • bird observations at Birralee - Sue Gebicki

• No. 58 - August 2014 (689 kB)
  • The search for the Golden Fagus 1 - Paul Edwards
  • A subterranean liverwort - Tom Thekathyil & Phil Collier
  • Fungi season - Sarah Lloyd
  • Platypus health and conservation research update - James Macgregor
  • Book Reviews:
        Read C & Slattery B: Mosses of dry forests in south eastern Australia
        Gates G & Ratkowsky D: A field guide to Tasmania fungi
        McMullan-Fisher, Leonard P & Guard F: Australian subtropical fungi

• No. 57 - April 2014 (670 kB)
  • Letter to the Editor - Richard Donaghey
  • Observations of breeding and foraging behaviour of Greater Roadrunner - Richard Donaghey
  • Reptiles at Cape Tourville - Sarah Lloyd
  • Budj Bim - John Campbell
  • Armchair foraying - anyone can do it - Sarah Lloyd
  • Marsupials and monotremes - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 56 - December 2013 (687 kB)
  • An aberrant Australian wood duck - Hazel Britton
  • In praise of Silvereyes - Sarah Lloyd
  • A count of Australian Pied Oystercatchers - Hazel Britton
  • Federation weekend - Sarah Lloyd
  • Wynyard landcare - Peter Lawrence & Graeme Stevenson
  • Giant Centipede Ethmostigmus rubripes - Rod McQueen
  • Australia's favourite bird - Superb Fairy Wren - Sarah Lloyd
  • Everything's habitat – fauna from northeast Tasmania - Beris Hansberry
  • A sorry tail - Ralph & Bee Bradshaw

• No. 55 - August 2013 (652 kB)
  • The Coorong - Jim Nelson
  • Bowerbird: a website for naturalists
  • Vagrant birds - Sarah Lloyd
  • Tubifera bombarda - a tropical slime mould in Tasmania - Sarah Lloyd
  • Mt Kaputar national park - Sarah Lloyd
  • Sykes Sanctuary, Railton - Sarah Lloyd
  • Life on a blackwood log - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 54 - April 2013 (691 kB)
  • What shall we call them? - Phil Collier
  • Platypus health and conservation research - James Macgregor
  • Fungus at Jackeys Marsh - Sarah Lloyd
  • Dancing cranflies - Sarah Lloyd
  • Myxomycetes - Sarah Lloyd
  • Book Review: Lake Pedder - the awakening - Jim Nelson
  • The common potoo and tawny frogmouth - Sarah Lloyd
  • Convergent evolution - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 53 - December 2012 (724 kB)
  • Owl's story - John Wilson
  • Insects of Tasmania website
  • Monitoring Spyridium - Phil Collier
  • Metallic flies - Sarah Lloyd
  • Native orchid pollinators - Phil Collier
  • Slime moulds at Birralee - Sarah Lloyd
  • CD review: Moggs Creek picnic ground - Ron Nagorcka
  • CNFN president's comments - Jim Nelson

• No. 52 - August 2012 (693 kB)
  • Revision of a Tasmanian endemic crayfish genus - Jim Nelson
  • Book Review: Coracina - John Wilson
  • Blue Gums in Ecuador - Ron Nagorcka
  • Weighing the evidence about orchids - Phil Collier
  • Ecuador: the land of birds - Sarah Lloyd
  • A summary of the Little Penguin census at Lillico Beach
  • Penguin facts - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 51 - March 2012 (594 kB)
  • Dickin's bush flowers - John Wilson
  • A return to Kink's Run - Jim Nelson
  • Case Moths - Sarah Lloyd
  • Case Moths feeding on orchid flowers - Phil Collier
  • New liverwort, Lepidozia serrulata, for Tasmania - Tom Thekathyil
  • Oviposting fly - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 50 - December 2011 (655 kB)
  • Platypus conservation in Northern Tasmania - James Macgregor
  • Insect discoveries at Ragged Jack and Lobster Falls - Alison Moore
  • Wonderful woodswallows! - Sarah Lloyd
  • Bryophytes - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 49 - July 2011 (687 kB)
  • Climate watch volunteers needed to observe seasonal changes - Nick Fitzgerald
  • Fungi and heathland plants - Sarah Lloyd
  • The birds come knocking - Phil Collier
  • Snakes (mostly) alive - Ron Nagorcka & Sarah Lloyd

• No. 48 - April 2011 (599 kB)
  • The (un)natural history of a rural driveway - Phil Collier
  • Created from Chaos: book review - Ron Nagorcka
  • Highland invertebrates - Sarah Lloyd
  • Northern snow skinks - Sarah Lloyd
  • Keeping the common birds common - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 47 - January 2011 (645 kB)
  • Estimating population size - Phil Collier
  • Laccaria sp. A - Elizabeth Sheedy
  • Mistletoe musings - Sarah Lloyd
  • Tea-tree fingers, Hypocreopsis amplectens, in Tasmania - Tom May
  • Keeping up the good work - Ron Nagorcka
  • Observation post - Jim Nelson

• No. 46 - August 2010 (631 kB)
  • A short visit to Kakadu - Jim Nelson
  • Slime Moulds - Sarah Lloyd
  • A new species, Cassinia rugata, for Tasmania - Phil Collier
  • Vale Joan Elliot - Jim Nelson

• No. 45 - May 2010 (654 kB)
  • Why crayfish - Jim Nelson
  • Marine invertebrates at Penguin Shelf - Sarah Lloyd
  • Tas Eco-Toxicology Research Fund
  • The paradoxical mammal - Ron Nargorcka
  • Notes on an epiphyllous liverwort - Tom Thekathyil
  • the Australian pelican: a bird of superlatives - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 44 - 2010 (624 kB)
  • Return to Daintree World Heritage - Jim Nelson
  • Life on a dogwood log - Sarah Lloyd
  • Cassowaries - Deb Kerr
  • Salmonella, silvereyes, sparrows: please don't feed birds - Sarah Lloyd
  • More on echidna, beeswax and bees
  • Assistance required with seed collecting
  • Moss leaves - Tom Thekathyil
  • Why 'disjunct'

• No. 43 - Spring 2009 (619 kB)
  • Two extraordinary birds: Painted Button-quail & Australian Owlet-nightjar - Sarah Lloyd
  • Leave logs for frogs - Larry Polansky & Sarah Lloyd
  • Flora of Tasmania online - Marco Duretro
  • Will echidnas save the Prunarra Brown - John Wilson & Peter Sims
  • Terra psittacorum - Sarah Lloyd
  • Vale Peter Britton

• No. 42 - Winter 2009 (587 kB)
  • Two Correas - Jim Nelson
  • What wasp - Sarah Lloyd
  • Identification keys
  • Don't plant any more pines - Todd Dudley
  • Sun flies - Sarah Lloyd
  • Rare plants in the Tamar Valley - Helen Jones

• No. 41 - Summer 2008/2009 (621 kB)
  • Fire, crayfish & truffles - Jim Nelson
  • Rediscovering Hibbertia rufa - Roy Skabo
  • Letter to the editor: pine trees and litter invertebrates - Bob Mesibov
  • Editor's response - Sarah Lloyd
  • Cool chicks and other beauties - Sarah Lloyd
  • A sound idea: acoustic bird monitoring - Sarah Lloyd
  • Winter sojourn on Deal Island - Alison Moore

• No. 40 - Spring 2008 (476 kB)
  • Notes on the vegetation on west coast south of Macquarie Harbour - Nick Fitzgerald
  • Grow more gorse? - Sarah Lloyd
  • More on weeds - Sarah Lloyd
  • Platypus monitoring - Josh Griffiths
  • Photos from Port Sorell trip - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 39 - Winter 2008 (657 kB)
  • Amphibian Chytrid fungus - Lisa Clarkson
  • The fly that flew too fast - Sarah Lloyd
  • Wings: an introduction to Tasmania’s winged insects. Review - Sarah Lloyd
  • Plant more pines - Bob Mesibov
  • Lucy bird - Yvonne Maher

• No. 38 - Summer/Autumn 2008 (496 kB)
  • Thar she blows! - Rod McQueen
  • In defence of cuckoos - Sarah Lloyd
  • An endangered crayfish: can we make a difference? - Jim Nelson

• No. 37 - Summer 2007/08 (653 kB)
  • Warming to the ice plants - Phil Watson
  • Keystone species - Sarah Lloyd
  • Orchid supplement - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 36 - Month Year (522 kB)
  • The silent cicada & other natural sounds - Sarah Lloyd
  • Stimulating brews from hop bushes - Phil Watson
  • Keeping a natural history diary - Lisa Clarkson
  • Road kill survey by pushbike - Steve Cronin

• No. 35 - Month Year (500 kB)
  • The Wielangta decision – where to now? - Jim Nelson
  • Notes from a Roadside Naturalist 2 - Paul Hydes
  • Summer observations - Sarah lloyd
  • A case of mistaken identity & Emperor revealed
  • The silent cicada & other natural sounds: book review - Jim Nelson

• No. 34 - Month Year (521 kB)
  • Leichhardt’s grasshopper - Helen Jones
  • Hard rock - Ron Nargorcka
  • Notes from a Roadside Naturalist - Paul Hydes
  • Winter at Moulting Lagoon - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 33 - Winter 2006 (572 kB)
  • Numbats, conservation & related corporate acronyms - Paul Hydes
  • Footprints in the pollen (Part 2) - Phil Watson
  • Back to Birch's - Jim Nelson
  • Mycologists in paradise - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 32 - Autumn 2006 (516 kB)
  • What's happening at Wielangta - Craig Woodfield
  • Footprints in the pollen (Part 1) - Phil Watson
  • Stromatolites - Helen Jones
  • Dawn at Black Sugarloaf - Sarah Lloyd

• No. 31 - Sumer 2005/2006 (614 kB)
  • Gannets: gormless but gorgeous - Rod McQueen
  • Orioles, Brolgas and Cistiicolas: birdwatching in Victoria - Sarah lloyd
  • The age of an estuarine woody plant Sclerostegia arbuscula at Port Sorell - Con Rhee
  • Is five times more than coincidence? a possible fungus/ant association - Sarah Lloyd
  • From the new president - Madi Hunt
  • Platypus ulcer disease Mucor amphibiorum in Tasmania - David Obendorf
  • Courtship displays
  • The TTRIANTIWONTIGONGALOPE: from A book for kids by C.J.Dennis

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