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.
Tag: biodiversity
News
Landslide vote: 97% of us want extinctions stopped and 72% want more spent on the environment
Most Australians (97%) want more action to protect nature, even if they don’t know the full extent of the biodiversity crisis. That’s the startling finding emerging from a national survey of 4000 voters.
News
29 threatened Aussie species are back from the brink. How?
Here’s some good conservation news: 29 threatened Aussie animal species are back from the brink.
Science & Environment
Has Australia reached its environmental tipping point?
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.
News
Extinct by 2041 – 63 native species we simply can’t give up on
Australia’s extinction record is abysmal, and the best way to stop it is to identify the species at greatest risk. Meet them here and find out how you can help.
News
Urgent action needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
We are witnessing the loss of biodiversity at rates never before seen in human history.
Wildlife
Why we need to start naming as many species as possible
It’s funny to name species after celebrities, but there’s a serious side too
News
Glowing geckos show farmers the way to protecting biodiversity
New research tracking glow-in-the-dark geckos has shown that isolated trees and the right crop direction could help improve biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.
Science & Environment
National parks are vital for protecting Australia’s endangered plants
We know very little about Australia’s most threatened plants.
Science & Environment
Earth’s biodiversity could be much greater than we thought
The Earth is full of many varied species from the largest mammals to the tiniest organisms. But we now think there could be ten times more species than was originally thought.