Ground-penetrating radar used to map critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombat burrows

Ground-penetrating radar used to map critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombat burrows

From ABC News…
 

Ground-penetrating radar used to map critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombat burrows

In the middle of the southern Queensland bush, a man in a high-vis orange shirt looks starkly out of place as he slowly pushes a strange four-wheeled machine across the uneven, scrubby landscape.

To the untrained eye, it looks like Max Thomas is searching for gold or mowing the grass as the sun shines down on him on this 30-degree winter’s day near St George.

But in the red dirt, stubby little footprints — almost like toddlers’ feet — give away what he’s really looking for…

 
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