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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,...

Queensland has an important network of private conservation areas, but they’re dangerously exposed to mining

Tarcutta Hills Reserve. Bush Heritage Australia, Author provided Australia has the world’s largest network of privately owned conservation areas that protect a range of rare wildlife, from bilbies to endangered fish. There...

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 of the environment. But is our...

The ‘Ringo Starr’ of birds is now endangered – here’s how we can still save our drum-playing palm cockatoos

  Palm cockatoo breeding pair at the nesting hollow. Female on left, male on the right. Christina N. Zdenek Australia’s largest parrot, the palm cockatoo,...

Australia’s threatened species plan has failed on several counts. Without change, more extinctions are assured

  Picture: Alex Asbury/AAP Australia is globally renowned for its abysmal conservation record – in roughly 230 years we’ve overseen the extinction of more mammal species than...

5 remarkable stories of flora and fauna in the aftermath of Australia’s horror bushfire season

 Picture: hamiltonphillipa/iNaturalist Around one year ago, Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season ended, leaving more than 8 million hectares across south-east Australia a mix of charcoal, ash and...

‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing

 Picture: Shuttlestock In 1992, 1,700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were “on a collision course”. Seventeen years later, scientists described planetary boundaries within which humans...

Why do we love koalas so much? Because they look like human babies

 Picture: Shuttlestock The koala is a much-loved species and lucrative tourism drawcard. Yet, for all its popularity, koalas are forecast to be extinct in NSW within 30...

‘Good luck fella, stay safe’: a snake catcher explains why our fear of brown snakes is misplaced

 Image: Shuttlestock Sun, sea … snakes: all three are synonymous with the Australian summer, but only the first two are broadly welcomed. And of all...
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