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The Victorian government has been working on plans to fit critically endangered dingoes in the state’s west with electronic collars.

Dingoes to be collared in contentious bid to protect sheep

The Victorian Farmers Federation has argued dingoes should be fitted with collars that can deliver an electric shock when they approach private property.

  • Bianca Hall

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Australian salmon should be avoided according to the experts.

Want to avoid farmed Atlantic salmon? Get hooked on these alternatives instead

Experts advise avoiding the Tasmanian-farmed fish variety following recent catastrophic events. Here are some alternative – and more sustainable – catches to try instead.

  • Ardyn Bernoth
Aerial footage of feral deer in Victoria.

Life just got a lot more dangerous for Victoria’s feral deer

More than 1 million feral deer are thought to call Victoria home. But unlike native dingoes, they remain a protected species.

  • Bianca Hall
A stray cat ready for de-sexing at the Lost Dogs’ Home in North Melbourne.

City considers 24/7 cat curfew for Melbourne

The City of Melbourne is aiming to reduce the number of wildlife killed and pets lost or hurt on roads.

  • Cara Waters
Shark killers extraordinaire, orcas Port and Starboard.

Two killer whales are hunting down great white sharks, Hannibal Lecter style

Forget Free Willy, this is Silence of the Lambs. Shark experts are trying to figure out how and why these orcas are dispatching one of the ocean’s fiercest predators.

  • Jonathan Edwards
Fish kill in Ballina waterways in the weeks after Cyclone Alfred.

Mass fish kill chokes waterways in Byron region

The rivers of the NSW North Coast are clogged with thousands of suffocating fish, prawns, eels, and crabs.

  • Angus Dalton
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The 14 kilogram pup is learning to swim and hold its breath.

Endangered Australian sea lion pup born at Taronga

The birth of one of Australia’s rarest marine predators has injected critical genetic diversity into the zoo’s captive insurance population.

  • Angus Dalton

Pigeons to be tricked into taking contraceptive pill

They have been called the “rats of the sky”, leaving mess over bikes, footpaths and virtually any other surface. Now one European city is fighting back.

  • James Rothwell
Wombat joey Hope survived more than three weeks without her mother, who was killed by unknown offenders.

Miracle survival: How wildlife rescuers found Hope after the cruelest act

Locals went to extraordinary lengths to save a wombat joey.

  • Bianca Hall
Screenshot of American hunting influencer removes baby wombat from mother. Source: https://www.instagram.com/samstrays_somewhere

‘Hypocrisy at its finest’: US influencer speaks out after wombat backlash

Hunting influencer Sam Jones has apologised following the video in which she took a baby wombat from its mother, saying she has received death threats.

  • Penry Buckley

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