Nature & Wildlife
The results are in for the 2024 Aussie Bird Count
Nearly 60,000 Australians ventured outside in October 2024 to take part in the Aussie Bird Count, the country’s largest citizen science event.
Category: Nature & Wildlife
Nature & Wildlife
Reef revival
The Reef Sanctuary Pontoon on Lady Musgrave Island lagoon is revolutionising marine education.
Biodiversity
Tales of the north
From the warm seas of the Torres Strait to the ancient rainforests of Cape York, the Far North only reveals itself through the sharing of stories
Biodiversity
Big bush corridor
One of the world’s largest land rehabilitation projects is transforming paddocks into natural paradises in the south-west of Western Australia.
Nature & Wildlife
How to make magpie mafia your feathery friends
It can take a long time for a crow to forgive your transgressions – perhaps as long as 17 years! And it’s a similar story for the Australian magpie. Luckily, they take bribes!
Nature & Wildlife
Lyrebirds reveal hidden farming talents
Australian researchers have found superb lyrebirds ‘farm’ the forest floor to increase their prey – a behaviour rarely seen in nature.
Nature & Wildlife
Captive kultarrs reveal wild behaviours
Kultarrs are tiny, cryptic creatures that only come out at night. Now, scientists are finally learning how they live.
Nature & Wildlife
Revealed: the toxic sex life of the blue-lined octopus
Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.
Nature & Wildlife
21 native species added to threatened list
Twenty-one native flora and fauna species have been added to Australia’s federal threatened species list, and six species already on the list have been moved into higher-threat categories.
Climate
New interactive heat map to help Darwin residents stay cool in a warming world
Darwinians have a new online resource to make life more ‘liveable’ as the impacts of rising temperatures linked to climate change begin to bite.