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Nauseous territory: outfoxing predators using baits that make them barf

Introduced foxes, dogs, cats, rats, and other predators kill millions of native animals every year, but what if they were conditioned to associate this prey with food that made...

How our album of birdsong recordings rocketed to #2 on the ARIA charts

‘Songs of Disappearance’, a still taken from the animation by Mervyn Street & Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman. The Bowerbird Collective, Author provided...

Morrison government spends $50 million saving koalas while taking away their homes

Image: Zoos Victoria Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley is reportedly poised to decide whether some koala populations should be listed as...

Native birds have vanished across the continent since colonisation. Now we know just how much we’ve lost

The critically endangered regent honeyeater. Friends of Chiltern, Author provided In the 250 years since Europeans colonised Australia, native birdlife has...

Why dingoes should be considered native to mainland Australia – even though humans introduced them

  Image: Shutterstock Dingoes are often demonised as a danger to livestock, while many consider them a natural and essential part...

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