Australian Geographic

Notes from the field

ighly respected wildlife photographer Esther Beaton shot her first AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC feature in 1996, travelling to far north Queensland to document cane toads (AG 44). But her latest contribution (page 38) took her just a few kilometres from her NSW Central

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