Flora & Fauna
It’s not easy being green
As well as suffering the same range of threats facing animals worldwide, our frogs continue to battle a deadly fungal disease.
Category: Flora & Fauna
Flora & Fauna
Australia remains on high alert for killer bird flu despite enduring recent high-risk migration season
As a deadly bird flu continues to wreak havoc across the globe, Australia has so far remained the only continent free of the disease. But experts warn it’s only a matter of time before the lethal virus that causes the disease arrives on our shores.
Flora & Fauna
On the nose: Wildlife detection dog successfully trained to find rare ‘finger’ fungus
The sniffing talents of a dog breed usually employed to find truffles have been utilised for science.
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Spreading the joy: Help us help our native numbats
This charismatic little specialist termite eater is one of Australia’s most unusual and endearing marsupials.
Flora & Fauna
Saving Tassie’s rare walking fish
These bizarre, shy fish that walk instead of swim face a precarious future in the waters of southern Australia.
Flora & Fauna
The race against Lorikeet Paralysis Syndrome
Hundreds of birds are literally falling from the sky every day, and experts still don’t know why.
Flora & Fauna
‘We’re going to see some haunting images’: Bird flu has reached Antarctica
It’s the news conservationists have been expecting, but dreading. The avian influenza H5N1 virus has reached mainland Antarctica.
Flora & Fauna
Why eucalypts are survival experts
They can recover from fire, grow back from a bare stump, shrug aside bark loss that would kill a lesser tree, and endure drought and floods.
Biodiversity
Pollution and climate change are making it harder to be male… if you’re a sea turtle
Green sea turtle populations are already becoming increasingly female due to a warming climate. Now pollution may also be contributing to unbalanced sex ratios in the species.
Flora & Fauna
Playful whales use seaweed as a hat – or exfoliant
This “kelping” behaviour is more common than we realised.