Endangered species
‘Death knell’ for Baudin’s black cockatoo as conservation bid rejected
The scientific community says there could be as few as 2500 of the birds left in the wild and asks whether the government is “waiting for zero” to act.
- Emma Young
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Foxes without borders: How far one fox roamed across Perth in just one night
Foxes are moving startling distances across Perth suburbs, sometimes in just one night. Now after 150 turtle deaths, an unprecedented response is being launched.
- Emma Young
Hopes for a new national park dashed, to the delight of hunters
Hunters and fishers have celebrated a vow from Environment Minister Steve Dimopoulos that the Victorian government will not legislate a new national park spanning more than half a million hectares.
- Bianca Hall
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- Biodiversity
The state made new laws to protect WA nature. Then it forgot something
The agency protecting the state’s famed but threatened ecosystems is not only not protecting most of them, but has been given no resources to do so.
- Emma Young
Scientists tested great white shark DNA. Now we know how many live off Australian beaches
They’re our most feared apex predator of the sea, but new research is upending what we think we know about great white sharks.
- Bianca Hall
When kelpie-cross Kip sits down while riding a paddle board, scientists pay attention
Along with four canine colleagues, Kip is helping biologists locate threatened species as part of Zoos Victoria’s Wildlife Detection Dog Program.
- Paul Connolly
Carnaby’s carnage laid bare in ongoing fallout from WA’s horror summer
Those on the frontlines of the battle to save WA’s best-loved bird have revealed new details – and new ideas.
- Emma Young
Murray Watt thinks he will succeed where Tanya Plibersek failed
The environment minister claims he has won “broad agreement” for Labor’s pledge to beef up nature protections, but there’s one reform he does not want.
- Mike Foley
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- Wildlife
There were no known sightings of this critically endangered animal outside Victoria. Now it’s in NSW
Hello, possum! Thought to be extinct in NSW, a Leadbeater’s possum has been discovered in Kosciuszko National Park.
- Bianca Hall and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The aphrodisiac that unlocked the secret sex life of snails
Fifteen specimens of a species of Norfolk Island snail thought to be extinct until 2020 have multiplied into 800 over four years in a captive breeding program.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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