Creating refuge for our native animals after fires
Our native animals are easy prey after a fire. Could artificial refuges save them?
Our native animals are easy prey after a fire. Could artificial refuges save them?
The Southern Ocean upwelling is a mecca for whales and tuna that’s worth celebrating and protecting.
These bizarre, shy fish that walk instead of swim face a precarious future in the waters of southern Australia.
Hundreds of birds are literally falling from the sky every day, and experts still don’t know why.
Recreational fishing is a popular pastime in Australia’s inland rivers and streams. Unfortunately, in the process, many people are unwittingly killing platypuses.
Nothing says an Aussie Easter quite like the bilby, but this symbol of the outback is facing a tough struggle for survival.
It’s the news conservationists have been expecting, but dreading. The avian influenza H5N1 virus has reached mainland Antarctica.
The Great Southern Reef is losing its most valuable asset, the Tasmanian giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), but a group of researchers and partners are collaborating to save this vital habitat.
The best specimen ever recovered of the extremely rare night parrot is now on public display at Western Australian Museum – and it’s already led to a scientific breakthrough that can help save the species.
When the first cane toads were brought from South America to Queensland in 1935, many of the parasites that troubled them were left behind. But deep inside the lungs of at least one of those pioneer toads lurked small nematode lungworms.