rats Archives

Everything you ever wanted to know about snails (on Lord Howe Island)

Scaling mountains, leaping out of boats, winching out of helicopters… meet the researchers doing it all for endemic snails!

Birds released from captivity after successful rat eradication program.

Our desert-dwelling rodents are truly remarkable, but the enormous nests of our native stick-nest rats are something else entirely.

Australia’s native rats and mice are as worthy of love and attention as the continent’s better-known marsupials.

The largest eradication program of its kind has successfully rid Macquarie Island of rats, mice and rabbits.