Starre Vartan

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Starre Vartan is a widely published science journalist, essayist, and author of The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body, a Library Journal Best Science Book in 2025. She's a dancer, ceramicist, trailrunner, wildswimmer, and explorer of planet Earth. Known online as The Curious Human, she's currently at work on her next book.

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The Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) frequents the western side of Cawleys Bridge, and it is hoped the bridge will reinforce the wombat population in Royal National Park. Image courtesy of Simone Cottrell / DCCEEW.

Above an Australian highway, a bridge reconnects wilderness for quolls, koalas and other animals

Starre Vartan 22 May 2026

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