We have been involved in a number of different projects in recent months, including consultancies and filming. On the latter front we have completed work with
several film crews concentrating on the saltwater crocodile, underlining its importance for northern Australia. We have also mostly completed a major project for Crocosaurus Cove, a new tourism facility in Darwin: we produced all the educational signage for the saltwater crocodile displays, produced two short films on crocodiles, and were instrumental in the successful move of all the large crocodiles into the facility. Photographs will be available soon, together with more details on recent consultancies for the Queensland Government. We are preparing for a research project in August investigating the genetics of the pygmy freshwater crocodile around the Victoria River.
April 2008
A busy month so far on the media front! On 12 April we issued a
press release discussing the attraction of crocodiles as stars on both the big screen and the small screen to coincide with the release of
Black Water and David Attenborough's
Life in Cold Blood in Australia. Both feature fantastic saltwater crocodile sequences that Big Gecko worked on, and emphasise why people come from around the world to see our crocodiles.
On 8 April we issued a
press release highlighting not only the recent work on American alligator blood, but also the discovery Adam Britton helped to make in 1998 about
crocodillin - a powerful antibiotic in the blood of saltwater crocodiles.
On 3 April we issued a
press release calling for a new
public awareness campaign about crocodiles, motivated by three crocodile attacks in as many weeks. We strongly believe that crocodiles are a major asset to northern Australia, and safety around crocodiles has to be an integral part of ensuring that people understand and accept crocodiles in their waterways, as well as avoiding potentially fatal crocodile attacks.
February 2008
Big Gecko continues to bring international attention to crocodile conservation and management issues. In early February a number of media outlets highlighted our work with Bullo River on threatened pygmy crocodile populations. Please visit out
Press Releases and Media page for more information. We have also updated our
filming CV and added a link to some of the
crocodile footage we obtained with David Attenborough for Life in Cold Blood which airs during February and March 2008.
November 2007
We are engaged in a number of research, consultancy and filming projects that are keeping us very busy. However, by January we hope to have a large update to the website covering the research and consultancy aspects of our work, along with a considerably enlarged selection of photos, video clips and other media.
July 2007
A few more photos are being added to the
photo gallery page, and the
working history has been extended back to 1995. We will be adding more photos later this month.
On 26 July we issued a media release in the Northern Territory entitled
Keeping a Head on Crocodile Icons highlighting the value of large crocodiles to the NT, and the repercussions of removing them illegally.
April 2007
We have just updated the
photo gallery page with a few images showing some habitats, some recent work, and some facilities. We have just finished an extensive crocodile filmng project and we'll be adding more photos to this page over the next few days. We have also started to add videos to the
video gallery.
January 2007
Welcome to the new Big Gecko website. We are still compiling the photo and video libraries for you to browse, and these should be available progressively over the next few weeks. We are always happy to answer any questions so please head to the
contact page to write or talk to us.
