This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. It wasn't enough simply to create the world; the Aboriginal god Beeral wanted it to be beautiful as well. And so he ...

Wildfire has scorched around half of Fraser Island, a World Heritage site off the East coast of Australia, after starting from an illegal campfire. There are concerns that the sand island’s unique ...

But don't just blame the dingoes: This may be the result of increased human interference with the local ecosystem. K'gari, formerly known as Fraser Island, is the world's largest sand island.

Five years after the last recorded sighting, wildlife rangers on K'gari (Fraser Island) say a wild horse ... "They damage the fragile ecosystems. "The grasses and what they eat over here weren ...