On paper, Australia is a conservation success story. Over the past 15 years, we’ve dedicated vast areas of land to conservation. Our primary goal has been to protect our unique plants, animals, and ...

Australia’s unique animal species are in sharp decline, with more than 40 mammal extinctions over the past 238 years. This ...

Australia had years to prepare for the arrival of bird flu. The deadly, highly transmissible H5N1 strain emerged in late 2020 in Asia, before spreading to every other continent bar Australia. After ...

Australia’s mammalian fauna is distinguished by a high degree of endemism and by ecological specialisations that have evolved in isolation over millions of years. These species now face a confluence ...

An Australian family who once built their life around sheep farming on a remote island are now helping give the same place a completely different future. Peter and Pamela Woolford took over Flinders ...

In today's human-dominated and overpopulated world, there are few, if any, countries in which species of nonhuman animal (animals) aren't under assault by humans who wantonly trespass into their homes ...

Imagine replanting various native species only to have them die because the area is too hot or too dry. Or reconnecting woodland habitat only to lose large tracts to bushfire. Well, our new research ...

Bird flu could decimate everything from pelicans and ibises to penguins and quolls, a horrifying risk analysis shows.

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

Imagine replanting various native species only to have them die because the area is too hot or too dry. Or reconnecting woodland habitat only to lose large tracts to bushfire. Well, our new research ...