Austrop Foundation and Bat House

Austrop Foundation and Bat House The Australian Tropical Research Foundation (AUSTROP) is an independent, non-profit organization operating in Cape Tribulation, Daintree National Par, QLD.

Bat House Tourist information on the roadside, and Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station at rear of block.

Pippin and I hard at work watching bats this afternoon
18/01/2026

Pippin and I hard at work watching bats this afternoon

Guillaume, one of our visiting Belgian students, is working with some of our smaller megabats. Here he is with an Easter...
05/12/2025

Guillaume, one of our visiting Belgian students, is working with some of our smaller megabats. Here he is with an Eastern tube-nosed bat, Nyctimene robinsoni

Look what bit Hugh on the toe this morning! After a brief period of raw panic (Hugh thought it was a funnel web), our re...
26/04/2025

Look what bit Hugh on the toe this morning! After a brief period of raw panic (Hugh thought it was a funnel web), our resident spider afficionado pointed out that it was a tarantula. Obviously stroppier than the placid ones some people keep as pets!

Talia here. Today's project for Hugh and me: cleaning a termite nest out of our cabin. The amazing thing about these str...
16/02/2025

Talia here. Today's project for Hugh and me: cleaning a termite nest out of our cabin. The amazing thing about these structures is that they sprang up on the inside and outside of the cabin walls in a month or less.
That's the thing about living in the rainforest - it grudgingly allows you to live there, while constantly trying to re-establish dominance by overgrowing paths with vines, sending emissaries of various species of wildlife into your living areas and rotting anything you build almost as fast as you can build it.

A big day for the station today - after five plus years of casual neglect, the tank to our composting toilet system is b...
12/02/2025

A big day for the station today - after five plus years of casual neglect, the tank to our composting toilet system is being professionally suctioned. (We were originally going to do it the old-fashioned way, by shovelling the poo into wheelbarrows and carting it off to the forest, but when we opened the access hatch on the tank, a river of brown sludge came spilling out. It was definitely a "Who you gonna call?") moment.

Our electronics lab after a tree self-decapitated just outside during yesterday's heavy rain. Luckily, there was very li...
06/02/2025

Our electronics lab after a tree self-decapitated just outside during yesterday's heavy rain. Luckily, there was very little damage

A late night visitor to our veranda dining area - Littoria gracilienta, one of our two local chorus frogs.
05/02/2025

A late night visitor to our veranda dining area - Littoria gracilienta, one of our two local chorus frogs.

Oscar, this year's spectacled flying fox rescue baby beat the big bats to the food buckets and came away with a nice, ju...
15/01/2025

Oscar, this year's spectacled flying fox rescue baby beat the big bats to the food buckets and came away with a nice, juicy mango pit.

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3915 Cape Tribulation Road
Cape Tribulation, QLD
4873

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+61740980147

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