Australia’s environment is sick and getting sicker as the combined effects of climate change, pollution, land clearing and mining take a dangerous toll, a landmark report says.
Thousands of koalas were killed in the 2019/20 bushfire emergency, but keeping the species from extinction is more than just a numbers game.
Early last year, a report by 38 ecologists and climate change experts warned that Australian ecosystems were already collapsing en masse and called for a radical rethink of how we approach nature conservation.
Rare footage of ‘papping’, a crucial step in a koala joey’s migration from pouch to fending for itself, has been captured on film.
The Ice Bear as Sea Bear by Martin Gregus. It’s part of the exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum, where the 57th Wildlife Photographer Exhibition is currently on show.
We ran a competition with Torren’s university and the results were incredbile. Their challenge was to make wall posters that you would want to have on your wall. It was a really hard choice but in the end we chose Danielle Leedie Gray and Damien Davis’s pieces. They were really different to one another but… View Article
Award-winning Australian landscape and wildlife photographer Justin Gilligan takes the new Samsung Galaxy for a tour of his home island.
Some animals can live to a startlingly old age, from the famous 392-year-old “Greenland shark” to a 190-year-old tortoise in the Seychelles. Two science studies published recently brings us closer to understanding why some animal species can live for so long – far longer than humans.
Travel back into the early Universe with these spectacular images of the deep cosmos.
Australia’s iconic budgie has been immortalised on a set of three Australia Post stamps.