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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...

A FUNGAL FIRST: PATHOGENIC FUNGUS FOUND TO INFECT DUNG BEETLES IN AUSTRALIA

A locally found pathogenic fungus, Beauveria australis, has for the first time been observed infecting imported dung beetles in Australia. The discovery by Australia's national science...

Overfishing, Conservation, Sustainability, and Farmed Fish

As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing and other fishing-related environmental issues are a real problem, but it’s not clear that government...

Times have changed: why the environment minister is being forced to reconsider climate-related impacts of pending fossil fuel approvals

Image: Shutterstock A non-profit group is imploring the new federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to consider the climate change impacts of 19 fossil fuel projects...

Find out what threatened plants and animals live in your electorate (and what your MP can do about it)

Image: Gouldian finch. Shutterstock More than 1,800 Australian plants and animals are considered at-risk of extinction, and yet protecting threatened species is almost entirely absent from the current election...

It may not be cute, but here’s why the humble yabby deserves your love

Image: Cherax destructor; the common yabby. Author provided For children growing up in rural areas, going “yabbying” in farm dams is a rite of passage. The common...

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 (no reuse) Australia is losing its birds...

National parks are not enough – we need landholders to protect threatened species on their property

Getty Images Over the last decade, the area protected for nature in Australia has shot up by almost half. Our national reserve system now covers 20% of...

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 endangered, as new research shows her...

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 disappeared across the continent. Our new research has,...
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