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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...

Dead, shrivelled frogs are unexpectedly turning up across eastern Australia. We need your help to find out why

  Green Tree Frog Jodi Rowley, Author provided Over the past few weeks, we’ve received a flurry of emails from concerned people who’ve seen sick and...

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...

Next time you see a butterfly, treasure the memory: scientists raise alarm on these 26 species

  The bulloak jewel (Hypochrysops piceatus) Michael Braby, Author provided It might sound like an 18th century fashion statement, but the “pale imperial hairstreak” is, actually, an...

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...

Look up! A powerful owl could be sleeping in your backyard after a night surveying kilometres of territory

 Picture: Nick Bradsworth, Author provided Picture this: you’re in your backyard gardening when you get that strange, ominous feeling of being watched. You find a grey...

‘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...

Australia must control its killer cat problem. A major new report explains how, but doesn’t go far enough

 Image: Shuttlestock Australia is teeming with cats. While cats make great pets, and can bring owners emotional, psychological and health benefits, the animals are a scourge...

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...

Clicks, bonks and dripping taps: listen to the calls of 6 frogs out and about this summer

 The banjo frog, Limnodynastes dumerilii Jodi Rowley, Author provided Frog calls are iconic sounds of summer in Australia. There are more than 240 species native to Australia, almost all...
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