Roaming pet cats kill 390 million animals per year in Australia. Most of the animals are native to Australia.
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With careful observation, you can start to recognize that one sassy squirrel or the cardinal pair who call your neighborhood home.
Are ‘murder hornets’ from Asia invading North America? A Japanese entomologist who’s been stung by one and lived to tell the tale explains what’s true about these predatory insects.
With national parks closed in many parts of North America, now is the time to rethink how we protect natural areas.
If left unregulated, the unsustainable exploitation of leopards will have severe ecological and evolutionary costs.
What drives people to garden isn’t the fear of hunger so much as hunger for physical contact – and a longing to engage in work that is real.
What a hungry Red kite tells us about human-animal relationships.
A new study forecasts that thousands of miles of new road construction will cut through tiger habitat across Asia by 2050. Planning can make these projects more tiger-friendly.
Researchers are using a newly developed satellite tag to study previously unknown aspects of tiger shark reproduction. This approach could be used on other difficult-to-study shark species.
Ecological systems are at breaking point and a global economic collapse is under way. It’s time to invest in risk mitigation to prevent another COVID-type disaster.
Zoonotic diseases can emerge closer to home than you realise.
Wildlife is returning to our deserted cities. But will they stay once life returns to normal?
Protected areas in Nigeria are generally hampered by limited funds and resources.
Wild animals and animal parts are bought and sold worldwide, often illegally. This multibillion-dollar industry is pushing species to extinction, fueling crime and spreading disease.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is undergoing extensive genetic analysis around the world to understand its origin and evolution.
The game is a fantastic metaphor for understanding how extinctions cause ecosystems to become more fragile.
Releasing balloons at weddings and other celebrations is festive, until they break into pieces and become plastic pollution. A citizen science project is spotlighting the problem.
Researchers expected to find koalas killed by the fires. But they were heartbroken to find those that died afterwards from starvation, thirst or injury.
Wet and bulky cattle dung is very unlike marsupial dung that Australian dung beetles are adapted to deal with, meaning native dung beetles tend to leave it alone. But help from abroad is at hand.
Each B&B is a green sanctuary for pollinators, containing pollinating plants and shelters like beehives and nesting boxes.
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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