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Annette Ruzicka is an award-winning conservation and environment photographer and filmmaker. Telling stories that matter!

23/05/2026

People of the Murray Darling Basin...from the Yorta Yorta people whose connection to the water and land date thousands of years, to the farmers, citrus growers and locals who grew up with water and the river in their lives. A lot has changed with the system over the decades - hear their stories in the latest edition of magazine.

18/05/2026

Earlier this year I joined on their Victorian-instalment of a four-part series exploring the Murray–Darling Basin. It traces, state by state, the challenges and opportunities that shape this huge and complex river system ahead of a major review, due at the end of 2026, of the Basin Plan that provides a framework to ensure the system’s health.

I'd like to share some images that despite the many issues the system faces (read the story by Adam Scroggy!!) There is much beauty to fight for.

Link to the story: https://lnkd.in/gdAncWuN

15/05/2026

Post no. 2 on the fabulous Gumbaynggirr Rangers and their Sea Country! This time featuring some of the wonderful women rangers. It warms my heart that they are caring for this incredible country.

14/05/2026

Some latest work for Trust for Nature and their launch of Habitat Track: a new biodiversity data and monitoring framework. This brings conservation science into the modern age and ensures the work happening on private land is properly measured, recognised and used to guide action.

The Trust is brilliant because they work across thousands of private properties – conservation covenants, reserves and Land for Wildlife sites – protecting some of Victoria’s most important remaining habitat. SO IMPORTANT!

11/05/2026

Nitmiluk National Park, Jawoyn Country. I LOVE the NT, and Northern Australia in general. I did sadly see a lot of death alongside the life. Cycle Narelle and the floods decimated food sources for creatures like the flying fox and I saw so many dead pups starved to death. Cyclones are longer and more intense now that the oceans are warmer amd they help cyclones gather strength. While I celebrate the beautiful things I saw (check out the bat wings!!) I want to reiterate they won't be around for your children and grandchildren if we don't do what we can to protect the environment.

I.e. don't vote for One Nation for a start.

09/05/2026

Post 1 of a few: say g'day to beautiful Gumbaynggirr Country (near Coffs Harbour, NSW) and the AWESOME Gumbaynggirr Sea Rangers.

This Country has a diversity of stunning features including rainforests of World Heritage significance, mountain ranges and stunning Sea Country that consists of coastal ranges, lowlands, rivers, mangroves and estuaries, as well as the Solitary Islands. (Hence why there'll be several posts!)

The rangers undertake monitoring of shorebirds, mangrove restoration, cultural burning, water testing, cultural mapping of the IPA and much, much more.

This team were so incredibly helpful, friendly & made me laugh during our shoot - it was hard to leave.

Stay tuned to hear about the women rangers in this fabulous team!

Huge thanks also to & their important work in showcasing and advocating for First Nations Rangers.

03/05/2026

The glorious melaleuca trees of Wadjemup. Due to coastal winds on this very small island in the Indian Ocean, some have a completely vertical direction of growth. So awesome.

29/04/2026

Quokkas are undoubtedly an adorable native species. A threatened one at that. These little guys I reckon are the drawcard for over 50% of tourism on Wadjemup (Rottnest Island). You could attribute them to millions of bucks in tourism dollars, which is pretty cool. But I also wish we could treat ALL native species with the same reverence. I go to this place because there's no cars, the quokkas rule the joint (pretty much) and of course because it's a bloody beautiful island.

Our species trajectory is looking bad in Australia. Let's remember to value them all, some of them ar this rate won't be around by the time your kids grow up.

I love our native animals so so much, they feed my soul and keep our ecosystems running.

Post-trip blues rant over!

21/03/2026

GOOD NEWS ALERT!

Huge congrats to the Karijarri Traditional Lands Association for the creation of the first ever Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area - THAT IS BIG!

Karajarri people see the plants and animals, as well as the water and the Country itself as Wankayi (alive), and view their environmental responsibilities as ‘palanapayana tukjana ngurra’ - ‘everybody looking after Country properly’.

I had the best time with the Karijarri Ranger team, especially the ladies who told me some gorgeous childhood stories about their time on Sea Country. Huge thanks to Country Needs People for taking me out there.

17/03/2026

Some pics from a recent trip to visit a wonderful couple of conservation covenantors. Incredible property, but my favourite part was hearing them say "our native animals have a right to live here". A lot of people don't think that way, nor do they realise we need animals and plants to survive!

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