Kuno

About Kuno
Background
Kuno's mission is to provide the knowledge of and connection with nature needed to inspire humanity to protect Life on Earth.
Kuno is your platform to connect with nature, to share your love for nature, and through that love, to ensure for the protection of our Earth’s wild places.
Kuno is a social enterprise business premised upon a love nature, a belief in nature’s power to transform people’s lives, and a commitment to connecting people with nature and protecting and restoring the natural world.
Articles listed under Kuno have been put together by the Kuno team as general articles or 'for your infomation' articles for the benefit of users of this site.
Articles by Kuno

Gerard Castles on place
Gerard Castles (1961 - 2025) was one of Tasmania's greatest thinkers and advocates for its wild places. Here he talks beautifully of the spiritual importance of place.

How to use Kuno
Kuno is your platform to share a love of Earth. Here is a simple guide for how to use it.

Camping on Bruny Island
Bruny Island is a wonderful place to relax, forget about the worries of the world, and to reconnect with nature. There are a number of great spots to camp, perfect for kids and families, and nestled close to great walks and magic parts of the Bruny coastline.

Mountain Biking and Cycle Touring Trail Grades
The cycling trails listed on the Kuno platform use an overlapping system for sealed road ‘cycle touring’ vs dirt road ‘mountain biking’ trails grades.

International River Grading System
The International River Grading System has been designed to provide an indication of the degree of difficulty for paddling of a rapid and/or river.

Bruny Island - lunawanna-alonnah field guide
The Bruny Field guide is a special project that is ‘crowd-sourcing’ a rich, beautiful and comprehensive guide to the natural history of Bruny Island, its stories, conservation needs and how to see, connect with and be inspired by this extraordinary place

Walking on Bruny Island
Bruny Island is a wonderful place to enjoy some long, slow, relaxing and beautiful walks in nature. Stunning coastal walks, clifftops, forests, fascinating history and rare and interesting wildlife can be found here. Bruny is also a haven for birdlife and a delight for twitchers.

On Care for Our Common Home
Pope Francis (1936 - 2025) in 2015 published the second encyclical, Laudato si' "On Care for our Common Home". In it, the Pope appealed to humanity to take "swift and unified global action" for our common home.

The Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta is a vast and varied ecosystem created as the Okavango River flows into the Kalahari desert in Botswana. Rich in wildlife, this World Heritage Site is a sanctuary to some of the world's most endangered animals and birds. The Okavango Delta is a unique pulsing wetland.

Crowd-sourcing the Nature of Bruny
An exciting project to crowd-source an online field guide to Bruny Island's Natural history, stories and conservation will be launched at 12noon, Sat 14th September at the Adventure Bay Hall

Flatwater Grades
This grading system for the difficulty of paddling sea, estuaries and large areas of open water has been developed by PaddleNSW qualified Sea Instructors to assist in describing waterways.
Galleries by Kuno
takayna / Tarkine
Takayna / Tarkine is a hugely diverse wild landscape with an extraordinary history. Largely unprotected this region has huge potential for national park and world heritage status.
Southwest National Park, Tasmania
Southwest National Park in Tasmania is a vast, mostly trackless wilderness containing ancient forests, the wildest rivers, a glaciated and mountainous landscape and a spectacular coastline with rich aboriginal history.