Living with Wildlife

A Guide for Our Homes and Backyards

By: Tanya Loos

A practical and wildlife-friendly guide for successfully living alongside our wild neighbours.

Possums in the roof, an echidna in the garden, or perhaps a python in the pantry? Living with Wildlife: A Guide for Our Homes and Backyards explores commonly asked questions and issues about encounters with wildlife. Taking a wildlife-friendly approach, Tanya Loos provides practical information, advice and solutions, based on current guidance from wildlife rescue organisations and the latest research. + Full description

Living with Wildlife features helpful advice on wildlife rescue, both for every day and during extreme weather events, as well as common issues such as feeding wildlife, pets and driving. As urbanisation and climate change effects intensify, Australian wildlife need our help now more than ever, making this a timely guide for successfully living alongside our wild neighbours.

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Reviews

"In a world of changing climates and decreasing natural habitat we all need to adapt to survive. Living with Wildlife provides a practical, accessible and engaging guide to sharing our spaces with the wildlife our homes have displaced. Filled with sensible, achievable tips for a safe and peaceful co-existence with a wide range of species, this book is an essential resource for all nature lovers who want to share their world with Australia’s remarkable wildlife."
Dr Danielle Clode, award-winning author

Details

Paperback | November 2024 | $ 39.99
ISBN: 9781486316946 | 208 pages | 205 x 150 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour photographs, Illustrations

Features

Provides practical answers to common queries about wildlife encounters in our homes and backyards
Features sections on wildlife issues in the home and garden, wildlife rescue and wildlife-friendly fencing, driving and pet ownership
Includes photographs and illustrations
Offers simple steps and solutions to ensure peaceful coexistence with Australian wildlife
Information has been checked by experts in wildlife and ecology

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1: House
Bats in the roof
There’s a tree frog in my toilet
Birds hitting my windows
Birds attacking their reflections
Wombat living under the house
Possums living in the roof
Cockatoos destroying my house
Spiders in the house
Remove rats and mice without harming wildlife
Python in the roof

Part 2: Backyard
An ‘old’ cockatoo with feather loss and a deformed bill
Flying-fox backyard visitors
Caring for blue-tongue or bobtail lizards
Bandicoots digging in the lawn
Kangaroos in the backyard
Protecting your chickens from quolls and other predators
A visiting koala
Venomous snakes
Baby bird out of the nest
Possums eating garden plants
Cassowary visits
Echidna in the backyard

Part 3: Helping wildlife in trouble
Injured, orphaned or unwell animals
Wildlife-friendly pet ownership
Entanglement
Wildlife-friendly driving
Is it okay to feed wildlife?
Extreme weather

Conclusion
Further reading
Index

Authors

Tanya Loos is an ecologist, educator and science communicator living in central Victoria, who is passionate about wildlife. Tanya loves writing about nature and science, and her work has featured in Cosmos Magazine, Wildlife Australia and Australian Birdlife.