Heavy rains through Central Australia brought by ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie has reinvigorated the Alice Springs community, with locals making a splash in the usually-bone dry Todd River.
"You persist for so long with hot, dry, dusty weather," he said.The beauty of the Red Centre is on display after floods, with the Todd River spilling over."After all of this rainfall, we're going to get increases in seeds, in insects and in reptiles," he said."We're already starting to see budgies coming in, and some of the seed-eating birds like finches and doves."Native wildlife is flourishing in the weather.
"We've got some some really interesting frogs in this environment that spend most of their time during dry times underground, living inside this waterproof cocoon that holds water in for them to live in. "And so they just spent years underground like that. And when you get rainfall like this that triggers them to come to the surface and breed in the temporary water pools."He said conservationists would use this opportunity to try to bring other native species back from extinction.
"We've been able to reintroduce five or six of those species into a predator exposure that we we have out at New Haven," he said. "This rainfall period that we're getting now will be really beneficial to them and then in the longer term."
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