CROCODILES and prehistoric cassowaries are all in a day's work for wildlife ranger Tom Lawton – who is shaping up to be the county's very own Steve Irwin.The Hartpury graduate is taking on some of Australia's most dangerous wildlife in his day-to-day role with the Department for Environment and Heritage Protection in Queensland.Some of the crocodiles on Tom's patch can reach five metres in length. Cassowaries are indigenous birds the size of an ostrich – with a fearsome talon...
Reported by Gloucester Citizen 10 hours ago.
CROCODILES and prehistoric cassowaries are all in a day's work for wildlife ranger Tom Lawton – who is shaping up to be the county's very own Steve Irwin.The Hartpury graduate is taking on some of Australia's most dangerous wildlife in his day-to-day role with the Department for Environment and Heritage Protection in Queensland.Some of the crocodiles on Tom's patch can reach five metres in length. Cassowaries are indigenous birds the size of an ostrich – with a fearsome talon...
Reported by Gloucester Citizen 10 hours ago.