 A Perentie (Centralian blue-tongued lizard) at Alice Springs Desert Park |
The world’s first desert bio-park, on the outskirts of Alice Springs, celebrates its twelfth anniversary this year (2009). This extensive park, with Aboriginal guides and rangers, provides a unique insight into the fragile web of life that connects plants, animals and people in the arid environment of Central Australia. An Aboriginal ranger at the park talks about Bruce Chatwin's pathbreaking book. The Songlines. "Chatwin didn't really understand Aboriginal culture", says the ranger, "but he came close".
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