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Western Shield celebrates 25 years of protecting native Australian wildlife

Western Australia’s native species conservation program Western Shield is celebrating 25 years of helping threatened species. Operating across 3.8 million hectares, the Department of Biodiversity,…

Australian native wildlife facing new wave of extinctions

Over eight in 10 of Australia’s nationally-listed threatened species are in danger of extinction due to invasive species, warned a new report by CSIRO. As…

Koala genome data released in campaign to protect the vulnerable species

Scientists at the University of Sydney’s Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group have loaded the entire genomes of 116 koalas to the public domain to accelerate vital…

30% of all Australia’s remaining koalas lost in just 3 years – New population figures show a 3-year decline as high as 41% in NSW/ACT & 37% in QLD

30% of all Australia’s remaining koalas lost in just 3 years – New population figures show a 3-year decline as high as 41% in NSW/ACT…

Evolutionary Biologist Urges us to Save What’s Left of our Natural Bushland

Why do kookaburras laugh? Why are fairy wrens so blue? Why do cicadas click in unison? Professor Leigh Simmons, an evolutionary biologist from UWA’s School…

Bird malaria spreading via global ‘hotspots’

Bird species across the globe are suffering and dying from a type of malaria and while these strains are not infectious to humans, they’re spreading…