Once sold as ‘penny turtles’ around Australia, the Mary River turtle’s plight galvanised local community efforts to save it from extinction.
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Blink and you’ll miss it. The kowari is a charismatic marsupial carnivore that needs our help.
Conservation dogs perform vital roles across Australia. Some are guardians protecting wildlife from predators while others put their powerful sense of smell to use as sniffer dogs or detection dogs.
Researchers used ‘citizen science’ birdwatching data to rank Australian species. Among the most elusive birds were ‘hide and seek’ champions and a few possibly headed for extinction.
After a chance discovery in the lab, this team used IVF to make hundreds of coral babies for restoration projects in New South Wales. So far the IVF babies are doing well in the wild.
The Australian government has at last produced a serious plan to control an introduced predator that is a big reason this country has one of the world’s worst records for species extinctions.
Despite declines of Australia woodland birds and ongoing conservation investment, we don’t have many studies that show exactly how effective different management actions are for these species.
Having so many threatened species live among us in our towns and cities reflects the impacts of urban development but is also an opportunity for us all to pitch in and ensure their survival.
Queensland can no longer cull sharks in protected areas of the Great Barrier Reef, but it’s time to move away from culls, nets and drumlines altogether. There are better ways to keep our beaches safe.
An update of the IUCN Red List attempts to map the real extent of global biodiversity loss.
Wollemi pines have survived for hundreds of millions of years. Once covering Australia, they now survive in a few isolated spots – but they’re coming back in a big way.
How many shark encounters have there been at your local beach? Explore our interactive map to see 20 years of incidents between humans and sharks in coastal waters around Australia.
It’s the Tasmanian devils that enjoy the highest survival and breeding success who’re more likely to get the fatal facial tumour disease.
A Night Parrot snapped in Western Australia confirms the mysterious species survives across Australia, but now the real conservation work begins.
The government’s charity drive for threatened species shows it’s unwilling to invest what’s needed to prevent extinction.
Researchers are planning to monitor orange-bellied parrot nests all summer to make sure they raise chicks successfully.
We know very little about Australia’s most threatened plants.
Half of Tasmania’s eastern quolls – Australia’s last population – have disappeared in the past 10 years.
New research suggests devils are evolving rapidly in response to their highly lethal transmissible cancer, and that the devils could save themselves.
Climate change gets a lot of the spotlight when it comes to saving wildlife. But bigger threats remain.
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University
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Honorary Research Associate, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Director, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
