{"id":927,"date":"2010-12-02T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=927"},"modified":"2010-12-02T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:37:00","slug":"2011-australian-wildlife-roadkill-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/12\/2011-australian-wildlife-roadkill-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE ROADKILL CALENDAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/TPbqaGyeWTI\/AAAAAAAAMOk\/GDdDjV9uhKM\/s1600\/Kangaroo%252C%2BBirdsville%2BDevelopment%2BRoad.%2BPhoto%2Bby%2BLen%2BZell-778799.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/TPbqaGyeWTI\/AAAAAAAAMOk\/GDdDjV9uhKM\/s320\/Kangaroo%252C%2BBirdsville%2BDevelopment%2BRoad.%2BPhoto%2Bby%2BLen%2BZell-778799.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545877725373159730\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/TPbqatiUUcI\/AAAAAAAAMOs\/YqNic2N385E\/s1600\/Wombat%2Bwaves%2Bgoodbye%252C%2BNowendoc%252C%2BNSW.%2BPhoto%2Bby%2BLen%2BZell-781806.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/TPbqatiUUcI\/AAAAAAAAMOs\/YqNic2N385E\/s320\/Wombat%2Bwaves%2Bgoodbye%252C%2BNowendoc%252C%2BNSW.%2BPhoto%2Bby%2BLen%2BZell-781806.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545877735774376386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2011 AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE ROADKILL CALENDAR\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a unique Christmas gift this year?\u00a0 Go no further than the just-released Australian Wildlife Roadkill calendar, from Wild Discovery Guides.<\/p>\n<p>Sure to be a talking point around the Christmas tree, the calendar features 12 colour images of roadkill around Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quirky, but not too gruesome,&#8221; says naturalist and author Len Zell, who wrote the popular glove-box guide book Australian Wildlife Roadkill, on which the calendar is based.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s a chance to hang something really different on the back of your toilet door, in the shed, or wherever you choose \u2013 we expect that the kitchen won&#8217;t be the most favoured choice for most people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the calendar is a novelty, the issue of roadkill is a serious one, especially as many Australians prepare for holiday road-trips over the summer. Zell&#8217;s book outlines how to avoid, deal with, and identify roadkill.<\/p>\n<p>The calendar features images collected over many years travelling throughout Australia, from a Wedge-tailed Eagle in Western Australia to a wombat in New South Wales, a Tasmanian Devil, and the cover shot of a Red Kangaroo on the Birdsville Development Road.<\/p>\n<p>Images can be viewed, and calendars ordered online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilddiscoveryguides.com\">www.wilddiscoveryguides.com<\/a>. The calendar is priced at $14.95 (plus $2 postage in Australia, or $5 overseas).\u00a0 It is A4 size, spiral bound, with a large square format.<\/p>\n<p>The book retails for $19.95, and a book\/calendar package is available for $30 including postage.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Discovery Guides is a small, independent publishing company founded in 2000 by Len Zell to publish quality travel guides aimed at travellers with a keen interest in learning more about the natural world in the destinations they visit. It also has an online magazine dedicated to nature-based travel and wildlife and environmental issues, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilddiscoveryguides.com\">www.wilddiscoveryguides.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"visibility: hidden; display: inline;\"> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE ROADKILL CALENDAR\u00a0 Looking for a unique Christmas gift this year?\u00a0 Go no further than the just-released Australian Wildlife Roadkill calendar, from Wild Discovery Guides. Sure to be a talking point around the Christmas tree, the calendar features 12 colour images of roadkill around Australia. &#8220;It&#8217;s quirky, but not too gruesome,&#8221; says naturalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}