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Given the growing evidence of catastrophic extinctions in the world’s oceans due to climate change and overfishing (see, for example, the recent IPSO report) one would expect a groundswell of demand for…
Australia is getting warmer and drier, and the area suitable for platypus is getting smaller and smaller. Research recently…
Miniature acoustic tags have been attached to the shells of 24 turtle hatchlings to monitor their location and behaviour…
Google Earth satellite images have been used to observe the behavioural interactions between predator and prey in the Great…
For many agencies and community groups interested in protecting biodiversity, a primary goal has been to protect native species and to control introduced alien species, such as feral animals and weeds…
It is time to drop the alien versus native species dichotomy in conservation, according to a group of eminent scientists…
The effectiveness of offsets and mitigation in restorating degraded ecosystems is questioned in an article published in BioScience…
Every night under cover of darkness an advancing wall of toads heads west. Rather than winding through the bush, the toads march straight down the highway, ignoring the official border signs. Meanwhile…
When I told my family that the top ten list of new species had been announced, the teenager asked, “Are we on it?” Although we’re not on the list, our fingerprints are all over it. Homo sapiens remains…
Around 20% of currently listed flowering plant species are classified as at risk of extinction but the current criteria for…
Ten of the 72 known seagrass species are at an elevated risk of extinction and three qualify as endangered, a study has found…
A new fence is being constructed to slow the advance of the cane toad in the Kimberley wilderness, in Western Australia The…
By introducing endangered male Mountain Pygmy-possums from Mt. Hotham to a female population in Mt. Bulla, researchers have…
At first glance, the bat captured in St. Vincent looked like a common type found in South America. But after closer inspection…
Two newly discovered parasite species are causing disease among endangered Australian frogs. Researchers say they are most…
Titanic-eating bacteria, a jumping cockroach, the king of the leeches and a fish that looks like a pancake. These are just a few of the diverse creatures voted into the top ten list of new species discovered…
Tourists from all over the world head to Borneo for orangutans, unspoiled ancient rainforests and an insight into the traditional way of life of the Dayak people. This ecotourism is based on an idyllic…
Governments and communities must take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions this decade or face enormous social and economic costs in future, according a report by the Australian government’s…
The world has been fiddling while the forests burn, or are otherwise lost. One proposal to keep what’s left intact is REDD – essentially, paying countries to conserve their forest carbon stocks. REDD (Reducing…
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