Scientists have created embryos from the eggs of southern white rhino and sperm from their northern counterparts.
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Botswana is launching a consultative process to review the current ban on elephant hunting.
By sequencing the genomes of other species, we can better understand our place in natural history.
More logging will occur in NSW if conservation areas are rezoned by the state government.
The poisoning of dozens of wedge-tailed hawks in Victoria could affect the entire wild population.
For decades, state and federal governments have shed environmental budgets and staff. Now it’s up to volunteers to fill the gap.
Conservation fences create a few hundred square kilometres of safety for vulnerable native animals surrounded by 7.6 million lethal square kilometres.
When environmental needs outstrip government funds, people power steps up.
Improving livelihoods by exploring alternatives to wildlife trade would help to curb the poaching of threatened species like elephants.
New Zealand’s coalition government in its first budget has treated public policies as investments, with the goal of improving social and environmental outcomes.
Governments around the world have vowed to halt the loss of global biodiversity by 2020, but without more investment, we’ll miss some of the targets.
Many sacred sites such as temples, and churchyards are havens for biodiversity.
Ecology is in the midst of a technological revolution. From tiny sensors that can be fitted to animals, to swarms of remotely-piloted drones, researchers have a host of new ways to study the natural world.
Many poachers continue to poach to improve their incomes, rather than just make ends meet.
Science can’t just stay in the ivory tower. But what does impact really mean and how does it happen? A study of more than a decade of ecological fieldwork projects in Bolivia suggests a better way.
Essays on Air: how archaeology helped save the Franklin River
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The battle to save the Franklin River - an exhilarating story of politics, cultural heritage and passionate environmentalism - captivated the nation in 1983.
Endangered bandicoots have been found in the outskirts of Melbourne.
Some scientists want to replace ‘ecosystem services’ with ‘Nature’s Contributions to People’.
Scientists have been naming species after well-known people since the 18th century, often in a bid for publicity. But the issue deserves attention – 400,000 Australian species are yet to be described.
New director-general Helen McGrady is looking to cities for a ‘radical’ future at the National Trust.
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