A staggering 7.7 million hectares of critical habitat has been destroyed since environment laws were enacted - and 93% was not referred to the federal government for assessment.
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Are our brains wired to favour growth over environmentally rational decisions?
Environmental protections in Australia are built on assumptions about where animals live – and it's harming our wildlife.
We used to think a marsupial mum didn't know when she was pregnant, but new research shows that's wrong. And that could help in conservation of endangered species.
A recent global survey found almost 600 plants have gone extinct. And this figure is likely to be an underestimate.
In the event, the federal election turned out to be more about the economy than the environment. But there are steps the Coalition government can take to help conservation and boost the economy too.
The latest update on the environment highlights that New Zealand has the world's highest proportion of indigenous wildlife species either threatened or at risk of extinction.
Trapdoor spiders that build unique burrows are found only in small areas of Queensland. But they don't travel very far from their location, and that could put them at risk.
The conservation frontline is not just in remote rainforests. It's right in our urban backyard.
New research looked at human impacts on more than 5,000 threatened species and found that a quarter of them have almost nowhere left to go to escape from the threats posed by human development.
A survey of 32,000 samples of dingo droppings and stomach contents reveal that this predator's appetite is as wide-ranging as Australia's landscapes. But medium and large mammals are top of the menu.
Little chunks of plastic are now scattered throughout the oceans and pollute most beaches around the world, including the nesting sites of threatened and endangered sea turtles.
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.
Top contributors
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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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Professor, The University of Queensland
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Environmental Management, 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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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Researcher, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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Alfred Deakin Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Professor, RMIT University
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PhD Student, The University of Queensland
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Vice-President, Ecological Society of Australia, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor Conservation Ecology, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
