WILD Discovery Guides

The Australian Wildlife Roadkill calendar for 2012, from Wild Discovery Guides, is now available for order.

Tired of all those chocolate box scenery calendars? Here’s your chance to hang something really different on the back of your toilet door – the 2011 Australian Wildlife Roadkill calendar.

Extreme drought conditions last summer contributed to a significant increase in the number of drivers colliding with animals on Victorian roads, according to RACV Insurance claims.

Why? That’s the question most people ask when they see my book about roadkill.

The possum pies are off the menu when we get to the Bushman’s Café , but their purveyor is around to explain why. We’re the day’s first customers when “Possum Pete’’ Salter arrives and while the menu looks interesting, there are a couple of reasons why we’ll go away hungry. First, we’ve failed to bring our own roadkill along (“you kill 'em, we grill 'em” says the menu).