Living together with nature becomes part of what makes Canberra genuinely unique as a location to call home, but that relationship with the natural world features trade-offs that locals learn to browse with time, and few are more right away felt than the routine presence of spiders within and aro… Read More

Couple of things disrupt the comfort and sense of security within a home quite as effectively as a spider encounter at the incorrect moment, and in Canberra, where the variety and density of local spider species is formed by the city's special position within a greatly vegetated, high-altitude en… Read More

Canberra's bond with its natural environments shapes the city's identity-- attentively created green corridors, huge parklands, and bush reserves woven into residential districts develop a habitable setting that many capitals can only admire. Yet this intimate closeness to native bush also guaran… Read More