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Inbreeding and male infertility could be impeding the recovery of one of New Zealand's threatened birds - the stitchbird, or hihi. Hihi sperm might hold the answer, and help raise funds for conservation.
We're in the middle of an Insectageddon. But a garden of native plants can help insects, as well as birds and other wildlife.
Most of Australia's plants and animals are found nowhere else on Earth. This remarkable biodiversity requires a bolder, brighter conservation vision.
The outgoing Threatened Species Commissioner has downplayed the importance of land clearing as a threat to Australia's plants and animals. But it's the biggest threat, and magnifies the others too.
Australia's species, like this green python, are remarkable and need far better protection.
Just a handful of federal members of parliament represent hundreds of Australia's threatened species.
Animals shed bits of DNA as they go about their lives. A new study of the Hudson River estuary tracked spring migration of ocean fish by collecting water samples and seeing whose DNA was present when.
The government's charity drive for threatened species shows it's unwilling to invest what's needed to prevent extinction.
From birds to bees, the wildlife in your backyard can tell us important things about the health of our environment.
We should be building wildlife bridges on the US-Mexico border – not walls.
The notion of using dingoes to protect Australia's wildlife is based on wolves in the US, but research cast doubts on the link.
A robust technique using the wonders of digital media has helped researchers understand how threatened species like frogs are faring on our globally changing planet.
Some animals love living in the urban jungle – but they are a small minority, compared to those we risk losing to urbanisation.
Researchers are planning to monitor orange-bellied parrot nests all summer to make sure they raise chicks successfully.
Australia's Great Northern Savannas are the largest and most intact ecosystem of their kind on Earth. But they still face pressure from grazing, mining and agricultural expansion.
Australia’s conservation laws presume that we can preserve everything in its natural state. But in a changing world, we'll have to be more flexible than that.
There's rarely good news in conservation - but we've been studying a program that actually works.
A warming Earth could see invading species arrive in Antarctica via the floating "taxi service" of the sea. That could be a threat to the southern continent's delicate ecosystem.
Freshwater covers only 0.5% of the Earth's surface but is home to 10% of the world's lifeforms.
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Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Associate professor/ARC DECRA fellow, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Vice-President, Ecological Society of Australia, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
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Principal Research Scientist, University of British Columbia
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Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Executive Director, Long Term Ecological Research Network; Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Researcher, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
