ANIMAL ARTICLES
If humans disappeared, what would happen to our dogs?
For many of us, dogs are our best friends. But have you wondered what would happen to your dog if we suddenly disappeared? Can...
CONSERVATION
How our album of birdsong recordings rocketed to #2 on the ARIA charts
‘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...
CONSERVATION
Morrison government spends $50 million saving koalas while taking away their homes
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...
CONSERVATION
Native birds have vanished across the continent since colonisation. Now we know just how much we’ve lost
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,...
CONSERVATION
Why dingoes should be considered native to mainland Australia – even though humans introduced them
Image: ShutterstockDingoes are often demonised as a danger to livestock, while many consider them a natural and essential part of the environment. But is our...
CONSERVATION
More than 200 Australian birds are now threatened with extinction – and climate change is the biggest danger
Image: ShutterstockUp to 216 Australian birds are now threatened – compared with 195 a decade ago – and climate change is now the...
CONSERVATION
The ‘Ringo Starr’ of birds is now endangered – here’s how we can still save our drum-playing palm cockatoos
Palm cockatoo breeding pair at the nesting hollow. Female on left, male on the right. Christina N. ZdenekAustralia’s largest parrot, the palm cockatoo,...
ANIMAL WELFARE
“Get out of the water!” Monster shark movies massacre shark conservation
Undeniably the shark movie to end all shark movies, the 1975 blockbuster, Jaws, not only smashed box office expectations, but forever changed the way...
CONSERVATION
Headphones, saw blades, coat hangers: how human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 years
This, if you can believe it, is part of a magpie nest. Kathy Townsend, Author provided When we opened a box supplied by museum curators,...
CONSERVATION
Australia’s threatened species plan has failed on several counts. Without change, more extinctions are assured
Picture: Alex Asbury/AAPAustralia is globally renowned for its abysmal conservation record – in roughly 230 years we’ve overseen the extinction of more mammal species than...
