Biodiversity
Making conservation pay
Protecting properties through private conservation is reaping rewards for New South Wales farmers while helping to save species.
Category: Land
Biodiversity
Celebrating Australia’s merry, once-misunderstood native mistletoe
Once considered a ‘nasty’ parasite, Australia’s mistletoe is now hailed as a solution to biodiversity loss.
Biodiversity
Rare carnivorous plant found near Perth
Conservationists have uncovered a large patch of insect-trapping sundews, one of Western Australia’s rarest carnivorous plants, just an hour outside of Perth.
Land
Hopes new plains-wanderer males will catch wandering eye of females
Seven captive-bred male plains-wanderers have been introduced into a wild population of females with the hopes they’ll be chosen for a ‘reverse harem’ or ‘stud farm’.
Land
What’s not to lichen?
Many people mistakenly think they’re plants, but lichens are weird composite organisms – and Australia has a lot of them.
Land
Frogs can fare worse in floods than bushfires
You would assume a flood represents a windfall for frogs, right? But new research finds these water-loving amphibians can have too much of a good thing.
Land
Secret possum refuge
A radical plan is helping a tiny mammal – the mountain pygmy-possum– beat extinction.
Land
Chasing gold
Wildlife photographer and videographer Jack Evershed spent a whole winter tracking the elusive golden swamp wallaby – a rare marsupial that looks like it belongs in a fairytale. His results are gold.
Biodiversity
Making younger trees age faster to create homes for wildlife
… and it can be done without chainsaws.
