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Araucaria Ecotours
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All our
regular tours have advanced eco-certification
Araucaria Ecotours
Established 1997
Most tours depart
from Brisbane
TOURS: Birding and other day-tours, Multi day Tours, Custom tours
Enjoy seeing, learning about and helping wildlife!
Enjoy on our tours:
- Seeking wild platypus, kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, possums, fruitbats, forest birds, wetland birds, reptiles, frogs, butterflies and other wildlife
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Learning from wildlife experts about the behaviour and ecology of our native animals
- Traveling
to forests (including canopy),
mountains, wetlands, beaches and outback
- Visiting
conservation-focused wildlife parks
to see
rare and threatened species
- Seeing a brilliant Milky Way, far from city lights
- Viewing a magical 'starry sky' of glow worms
- Local foods and
wines, and flavours from our native forests
- Joining citizen science and conservation projects
- Safe, comfortable
travel
Nature education activities
- Introduction to bird-watching and bird behaviour, the natural history of Southeast Queensland (especially the Scenic Rim) or local plant identification (all ages, mostly from 12 to 80's plus)
- Children's nature-education games, arts and crafts, and nature observation walks (mostly for ages 5-12)
- How to be a field ecologist (mostly for ages 12-16)
- Come for the day, spend the weekend camping next to the Araucaria property, or stay in one of them many accommodation options in the Scenic Rim
- Hire us to conduct activities in
other locatons (talks, excursions, nature games,
fauna surveys)
Tours 
Day tours - bird-watching; wildlife-viewing; gentle island walk
Multi-day: 3-day introduction to Australia's wildlife; 3-day birding for beginners; 3-day seniors special escape to the mountains; 8-day outback; special citizen science tours
Custom tours: contact us for possibilities
Where we travel
The Scenic Rim:
rich in wildlife, wonderful mountain scenery, variety
of forests
Wetlands with
abundant birdlife in Greater Brisbane and further
afield
Quiet beaches edged with woodland, away from crowds
The true
outback: red sands, red kangaroos, emus, mulga
woodlands ...
Wildlife
The Scenic Rim is part of
the region with the third highest biodiversity in
Australia
Many species, large and
small, famous and little-known, including:
kangaroos, wallabies,
koalas, other marsupials, platypus, fruitbats,
lyrebirds,
bowerbirds, cockatoos,
spoonbills, raptors, many other
birds, pythons, monitor
lizards, frogs, butterflies, glow worms and
many more ... plus
many plants and colourful fungi
(No guarantees of particular species on any
particular day)
Click here for our
wildlife pages
Also see:
- Our
guides Ronda and Darren
- Safety
on tour
- Conservation
and animal welfare
