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Researchers are planning to monitor orange-bellied parrot nests all summer to make sure they raise chicks successfully.
In the world of Harry Potter, beasts are to be protected, not feared. But this concern for monsters is hardly modern.
We know very little about Australia’s most threatened plants.
Study shows the footprint of climate change is already vast and that species are trying to adapt to rising temperatures.
Some have a strain that is almost identical to one that infected humans in the middle ages.
Genome editing and synthetic biology are giving rise to new forms of life. But do these organisms have conservation value as part of earth’s biodiversity?
The organisms that we’re now discovering are often more hidden and more difficult to catch than ever before.
Is an extinct animal really gone forever?
As the vaquita porpoise heads towards extinction, new management measures in Mexico still may have missed the point – affecting not one but two critically endangered marine species.
Australia’s new resolution will apply stricter monitoring to the special permits that allow some nations to continue whaling. But the new rules are non-binding, meaning countries are free to ignore them.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s proposed changes to Australia’s national environment act will significantly reduce judicial oversight on environmental decisions. Here’s why that matters.
The two species mated 500,000 years ago, leaving a genetic mark to this day. This knowledge could help save them from extinction.
University of Sydney conservation scientist Rick Shine has won a top science honour, for work that uses evolutionary theory to try and keep cane toads from killing Australia’s native wildlife.
Wildlife in wilderness areas have more genetic diversity, which is better for their survival.
Over the past four decade populations of almost all the common wildlife species have fallen to one third or less of their previous levels
Seagrass is more than just a bit of sea greenery.
Recurrent fires in Kenya’s Chyulu Hills have been linked to illegal activities and are often attributed to squatters who live in the hills.
In the absence of trading ivory, other solutions have to be found to fund conservation and support communities living on the front line of the battle against poaching.
Cats, rats, foxes and other mammal predators have been implicated in 60% of the world’s animals extinctions.
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sydney
