Endangered species
Frog saunas hold the key to saving species from deadly fungus
With little more than Aldi greenhouses and Besser blocks, Australian scientists are saving critically endangered frogs from a deadly fungus one at a time.
- Bianca Hall
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Why did Barnaby want to give a fish herpes? This environmental expert can explain
From the environmental frontlines, this Aussie is turning heads with tales that are truly wild – Darwin and the bonobos, Costa Rica’s “pura vida”, and the role of “ejaculation helmets” in saving a parrot.
- Peter FitzSimons
Once classified as extinct in the wild, these tiny marsupials are running free on three islands
In 1989, rescue workers scooped the last known colony of eastern barred bandicoots out of a rubbish tip and into the protective custody of a breeding program.
- Bianca Hall
Alcoa’s plans the ‘number one extinction threat’ to WA’s black cockatoos
Mining giant Alcoa plans to clear as many as 150,000 potential black cockatoo nesting trees to expand operations throughout the state’s northern jarrah forest.
- Emma Young
‘Death knell’ for Baudin’s black cockatoo as conservation bid rejected
The scientific community says there could be as few as 2500 of the birds left in the wild and asks whether the government is “waiting for zero” to act.
- Emma Young
Foxes without borders: How far one fox roamed across Perth in just one night
Foxes are moving startling distances across Perth suburbs, sometimes in just one night. Now after 150 turtle deaths, an unprecedented response is being launched.
- Emma Young
Hopes for a new national park dashed, to the delight of hunters
Hunters and fishers have celebrated a vow from Environment Minister Steve Dimopoulos that the Victorian government will not legislate a new national park spanning more than half a million hectares.
- Bianca Hall
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- Biodiversity
The state made new laws to protect WA nature. Then it forgot something
The agency protecting the state’s famed but threatened ecosystems is not only not protecting most of them, but has been given no resources to do so.
- Emma Young
Scientists tested great white shark DNA. Now we know how many live off Australian beaches
They’re our most feared apex predator of the sea, but new research is upending what we think we know about great white sharks.
- Bianca Hall
When kelpie-cross Kip sits down while riding a paddle board, scientists pay attention
Along with four canine colleagues, Kip is helping biologists locate threatened species as part of Zoos Victoria’s Wildlife Detection Dog Program.
- Paul Connolly