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More than 200 Australian birds are now threatened with extinction – and climate change is the biggest danger

  Image: Shutterstock Up to 216 Australian birds are now threatened – compared with 195 a decade ago – and climate change is now the...

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...

A Victorian logging company just won a controversial court appeal. Here’s what it means for forest wildlife

  AAP Image/Supplied by Dr Peter Smith Australia’s forest-dwelling wildlife is in greater peril after last week’s court ruling that logging — even if it...

To fix Australia’s environment laws, wildlife experts call for these 4 changes — all are crucial

 Picture: Shuttlestock The independent review of Australia’s main environment law, released last week, provided a sobering but accurate appraisal of a dire situation. The review was led by...

What are you really eating? How threatened ‘seafood’ species slip through the law and onto your plate

Picture: Shuttlestock Many exotic animals are banned from import into Australia because they’re threatened with extinction, and trading them is illegal under environment laws. Yet...

One cat, one year, 110 native animals: lock up your pet, it’s a killing machine

Picture: Anton Darius/Unsplash We know feral cats are an enormous problem for wildlife – across Australia, feral cats collectively kill more than three billion animals per...

Meet Chimbu, the blue-eyed, bear-eared tree kangaroo. Your cuppa can help save his species

Picture: Healesville Sanctuary, Author provided Tree kangaroos are so unusual that when Europeans first encountered them in Australia in 1872, they were sceptical. Who would believe a...

Conservation scientists are grieving after the bushfires – but we must not give up

Glossy black cockatoo populations on Kangaroo Island have been decimated. But a few precious survivors remain. Flickr That a billion animals may die as a result of...
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