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Jane Moores

Jane Moores studied Eco-Tourism and Environmental Health at Flinders University (SA). She has since worked in a number of roles in the tourism industry. Jane worked as a guide for several leading eco-tourism companies before becoming an assistant operations manager. She then moved on to other managerial positions including groups manager. For Educational Tours Australia, Jane is the Operations Manager and looks after the day to day running of ETA including itineraries, quotes and bookings.

email: jane@educational-tours.com.au

Jane Moores - Educational Tours Australia
Jane Moores

 

Damon Ramsey

Damon Ramsey studied Outdoor Guiding in the Blue Mountains (NSW), then completed a biology degree (majoring in Zoology) in Darwin, Townsville and Cairns. He works as a biologist guide and lecturer, leading wildlife, bird-watching, biology study programmes and general nature based tours for various companies and institutions around Australia. His full resume with guiding work, research assistant work and travel experience can be seen here . He has written this site's content based on summaries of his Ecosystem Guide series. This is a series of field guide-like books on the ecology, plants and animals of various Australasian and Pacific ecosystems. The first in the series "Rainforest of tropical Australia" has been published and can be ordered by contacting Damon at his address below. For Educational Tours Australia, Damon designs itineraries, and lectures and/or leads most of the tours & programmes.

email: damon@educational-tours.com.au

Damon Ramsey - Educational Tours Australia
Damon Ramsey

Matt Fenn

Matt Fenn has loved the outdoors since he was old enough to get lost in the national park next door. His passion for nature led him to obtain a degree in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide (SA). Matt soon discovered that there weren't too many jobs programming computers outdoors and he eventually found himself working as a tour guide in North Queensland. As part of his continuing quest to get people to listen to him he has completed Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training. He now spends his time driving big things and currently drives The Savannahlander between Forsayth and Cairns. He was responsible for constructing the website and ETA's continuing IT services.

email: matt@educational-tours.com.au 


 

 
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Plants

Eucalypts
The ‘Gum Trees’ or ‘Eucalypts’ are of course the most famous group of plants in Australia. The number of Eucalypts seems to vary quite a bit, depending on the author. It could be anywhere from 400 species, to possibly over 800 species.
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Birds

Penguins
Penguin
Penguin
Penguins are found mainly in the colder waters of the southern hemisphere, and do not occur in the northern Arctic regions. The only penguin that regularly breeds and lives on the Australian mainland and that is most likely to be seen in Australian waters is the Fairy Penguin. This species is also called the Blue penguin or the Little Penguin. As suggested by the latter common name, this is a small penguin standing about 35cm high, and in fact is the world’s smallest penguin.
 

Mammals

Fruit Bats and Flying Fox
The latter group includes the old world flying foxes and is quite different from the 'micro-bats' Like the 'insect bats', these animals usually roost communally, hanging upside down. Unlike their smaller relatives, however, they tend not to sleep in dark places, but roost hanging off trees.
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