Echidnas are seemingly everywhere in Australia, from the Red Centre to snowy mountains. And that’s just the start of what makes them interesting
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Brain samples of a thylacine that died in 1880 in Berlin were kept safe by researchers for decades. Now, they have finally been analysed.
Researchers are in a race against time to learn about the female-oriented social structures of Australia’s small native rodents and marsupials.
Our medicine, cosmetics and other everyday products contain compounds taken from nature. But Traditional Owners may not have given permission for the materials or their knowledge to be used.
A single colony of bees can have 60,000 bees in it. Together, they can visit up to 50 million flowers each day to collect pollen and nectar. They’re not called ‘busy bees’ for nothing!
Wet and bulky cattle dung is very unlike marsupial dung that Australian dung beetles are adapted to deal with, meaning native dung beetles tend to leave it alone. But help from abroad is at hand.
In NSW, honeybees are listed as a key threatening process to biodiversity.
Introduced species are often targeted for culling in conservation, but killing charismatic animals like foxes can be controversial.
Thousands of people in Australia and around the world have rallied to knit and crochet comfort items for wildlife. Their efforts are the latest in a long history of crafting for a cause.
Of all Australia’s wildlife, one stands out as having an identity crisis: the dingo. New research has found the dingo is its own species, distinct from ‘wild dogs’.
As soon as white colonists began farming sheep in Australia, they looked for a way to eradicate dingoes.
Australian wildlife can generally cope with drought, but they’re not prepared for the combination of people, introduced animals, and no water.
Bushfires are a part of life in Australia, and when they have run their course we pick up where we left off and carry on. But if you happen to be a small animal, surviving the bushfire is only the start…
Ninety nine per cent of the poisoned baits set up to catch feral red foxes in Western Australia are being eaten by other…
Extreme fires that surged through South Australia and Victoria last month killed entire populations of threatened native…
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