Category: Nature & Wildlife

Destinations

Best Antarctic photos of 2012

Antarctic travellers pit themselves up against each other for the best shot, with some suprising results.

Biodiversity

40 Tassie devil babies boost ark population

Forty Tasmanian devil babies born this year have boosted the insurance population of the Devil Ark program.

Nature & Wildlife

Sea lions: how they beat the bends

Scientists have shed light on a mystery: how diving mammals hunt the depths for food without getting the bends.

Nature & Wildlife

Gallery: Australia’s 10 most dangerous stingers

We unearth the crawling, swimming and creeping creatures that sting for predation and self-defence.

Nature & Wildlife

Native wasp is arch enemy of redback spider

A wasp collected on Captain Cook’s voyage in 1770, but largely forgotten since, has been found to prey on redback spiders.

Biodiversity

Back from the dead: Gilbert’s potoroo

Conservationists are celebrating the return of an enigmatic marsupial, previously thought extinct.

Biodiversity

The resurgence of red kangaroos

Professor Tim Flannery describes the resurgence of red kangaroos in Corner Country, where Qld, NSW and SA meet.

Nature & Wildlife

Little penguins in Sydney get check-up

Sydney’s little penguins got a check-up and the population is stable, say experts.

Biodiversity

Indian myna driving native bird decline

The first detailed survey on the impact of the Indian myna shows it is causing declines in nine species of Australian birds.

Biodiversity

Aboriginal conservation in Arnhem Land

These Indigenous Protected Areas are stunning landscapes in Australia’s Top End.