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Should Australians have to keep pet cats indoors?
Two-thirds of Australians support banning pet cats from roaming. Researchers say a ban would save millions of native animals – and billions of dollars.
Tag: animals
Nature & Wildlife
What causes pilot whale strandings?
It’s one of nature’s strangest mysteries that has baffled humans for millennia.
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Wild, free and feral: how brumbies are destroying Australia’s peatlands
Feral horses are running wild across Australia, and it might be reducing the amount of carbon our alpine peatlands can store.
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How a small Aussie town is saving the Mary River turtle
Australian freshwater turtles are facing an alarming trend. Almost half of these species are listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered.
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Are pesticides to blame for recent mass deaths of frogs?
Researchers have found pesticides in a third of the Australian frogs that were tested.
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OPINION: Moving on migration
A recent international report revealed that many of Earth’s great animal migrations are under threat, including some in Australia’s own backyard, writes biodiversity and conservation expert Dr Lily Bentley.
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Near-complete 50,000-year-old kangaroo skeleton retrieved from underground cave
The fossil, hidden underground since the Ice Age, has been brought to the surface in a precarious and meticulous mission executed by a team of intrepid scientists.
Science & Environment
‘Interpol’ database for parrots caught in illegal wildlife trade
Researchers are using forensic genomics to protect parrots from the illegal wildlife trade.
Science & Environment
‘Bunyip’ bird returns to restored Tasmanian wetlands
For the first time in more than 40 years, the distinctive booming call of the endangered Australasian bittern once again rings out across the waters of Tasmania’s Lagoon of Islands.
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Bringing back the eastern bristlebird
Eight captive-bred eastern bristlebirds (Dasyornis brachypterus) were recently released into the Border Ranges region of north-eastern New South Wales where they’re considered a critically endangered species.