CONSERVATION

For many of us, dogs are our best friends. But have you wondered what would happen to your dog if we suddenly disappeared? Can...

Image: A dead Peron’s tree frog (Litoria peronii) Ken Griffiths, Author providedLast winter, thousands of dead and dying frogs were found across Australia. Instead of hunkering...

Image: Gouldian finch. ShutterstockMore than 1,800 Australian plants and animals are considered at-risk of extinction, and yet protecting threatened species is almost entirely absent from the current election...

Image: Cherax destructor; the common yabby. Author providedFor children growing up in rural areas, going “yabbying” in farm dams is a rite of passage. The common...

‘Songs of Disappearance’, a still taken from the animation by Mervyn Street & Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman. The Bowerbird Collective, Author provided (no reuse)Australia is losing its birds...

Getty ImagesOver the last decade, the area protected for nature in Australia has shot up by almost half. Our national reserve system now covers 20% of...

Image: Zoos VictoriaFederal Environment Minister Sussan Ley is reportedly poised to decide whether some koala populations should be listed as endangered, as new research shows her...

The critically endangered regent honeyeater. Friends of Chiltern, Author providedIn the 250 years since Europeans colonised Australia, native birdlife has disappeared across the continent. Our new research has,...

Tarcutta Hills Reserve. Bush Heritage Australia, Author providedAustralia has the world’s largest network of privately owned conservation areas that protect a range of rare wildlife, from bilbies to endangered fish.There...

Image: Authors provided, CC BY-SAIn the southwestern corner of New South Wales, along the Murrumbidgee river, frogs are calling in a wetland called Nap Nap....