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Introduced myna birds have become dominant in Melbourne gardens.

Pest birds have taken over my garden – I get why people are fighting back

Introduced myna birds and the native miner are ruling our backyards through sheer aggression and pack mentality. But there is a solution.

  • Doug Hendrie

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Local government rangers called the RSPCA after they found the cat dead in an esky.

Floreat man charged after neighbour’s cat dies in esky

The man had trapped the cat and then called City of Nedlands rangers to notify them, but when they arrived, the animal was dead.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
A colony of brush-tailed rock wallabies has been spotted in the Grampians after the bushfire raged through.

Endangered wallabies survive Grampians fire but starvation threatens

Government field teams have assessed over 1000 native animals in the Grampians fire ground, and Parks Victoria has launched an aerial operation to feed at-risk wallabies.

  • Lachlan Abbott
O’Malley cats rights

‘Exterminate the brutes’: Should stray cats be killed or cared for?

A parliamentary inquiry into containment laws in NSW has sparked debate about a controversial policy spreading around the world.

  • Nick O'Malley
Joeys take shelter inside Wildwood Wildlife Shelter.

A lounge filled with joeys: Wildlife rescuers brace for influx of animals injured in Grampians blaze

Twenty joeys found refuge from the Boxing Day fire conditions inside the home of a shelter operator.

  • Alex Crowe
Colorised image showing avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (yellow), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells (blue).

Bird flu ‘may be mutating to become more transmissible to humans’

Scientists believe the virus – which has spread across bird and cattle farms in the US and caused 60 mild human infections – is a pandemic waiting to happen.

  • Tony Diver
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For the past decade, Julie Keating has spent most of her waking hours guarding seabirds on the Maianbar foreshore.

The ‘crazy bird lady’ standing between Sydney’s seabirds and extinction

Rain or shine, Maianbar resident Julie Keating is on the Port Hacking foreshore protecting migratory and resident seabirds almost every day from July to March.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
An adult female mountain lion, or cougar, in Southern California.

‘Wicked’ bird flu kills 20 big cats in Washington park

The virus began to present itself in November within the cougar population, with several cats developing pneumonialike symptoms. Within days, they started dying.

  • Emmett Lindner
Tasmanian Salmon

Is farmed salmon a guilty pleasure this Christmas?

Tasmanian salmon will be on the tables at thousands of Christmas lunches. Questions remain about the environmental cost.

  • Mike Foley
A man has been charged with animal cruelty after 98 kangaroos were allegedly shot at the NSW Hunter Valley.

Cruelty charges laid after almost 100 kangaroos shot

A man has been charged after the latest in a string of horrific animal cruelty cases in NSW.

  • Perry Duffin

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