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1807 plate showing now extinct island emus taken to France for breeding purposes in 1804. Emus are farmed primarily for their meat, leather, feathers and oil, and 95% of the carcass can be used. [83] Emu meat is a low-fat product (less than 1.5% fat), and is comparable to other lean meats.
Pungalina is a former cattle station while Seven Emu is currently owned by a Garawa man, Frank Shadforth, who has subleased 110,000 hectares (270,000 acres) of the property to AWC for wildlife conservation since 2009. [3] Seven Emu has 55 kilometres (34 mi) of coastline and links Pungalina to the coast.
Eremophila bignoniiflora occurs extensively in New South Wales and Queensland but also in the far north-east of South Australia and the extreme north-west corner of Victoria. There are scattered populations in the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia between Derby and Halls Creek. The species occurs in floodplains surrounding major ...
It was the location of a spring associated with the visit of George Vancouver in the 1790s. [4] Emu Point was named by a survey ship in 1815. [5] In the early twentieth century it became a popular camping location, [6] and has since continued as one with Big4 Emu Beach being established in 2014. [7] It was gazetted as a suburb in 1979. [8]
Mount Emu Creek abounds in redfin and is the home of many platypuses. [6] Surveys in 1991 [7] [8] and 1996 [9] confirmed that platypus are breeding successfully right in the heart of Skipton township, where on a bend in the creek at Stewart Park in the centre of town is a platform built on the banks of the creek from which to observe them. [10]
Eremophila lactea, commonly known as milky emu bush, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with its branches and leaves mostly glabrous but with white blotches due to the presence of dry resin. It is a critically endangered plant species mostly found in disturbed ...
The mallee emu-wren is restricted to open mallee woodland with spinifex understory in north-western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia. This region is rich in Triodia or as it is commonly known spinifex. The spinifex grass often grows to 1 metre (3 feet 3 inches) in height and provides the optimal habitat for the mallee emu-wren. [9]
Hakea francisiana, commonly called the emu tree, [2] grass-leaf hakea [3] or bottlebrush hakea, [4] is a shrub or tree of the genus Hakea native to Western Australia [2] and South Australia. [ 3 ] Description