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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.
- by Doug Hendrie
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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.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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.
- by Lachlan Abbott
‘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.
- by Nick O'Malley
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.
- by Alex Crowe
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.
- by Tony Diver
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.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘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.
- by Emmett Lindner
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.
- by Mike Foley
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.
- by Perry Duffin
‘Horrific acts of animal cruelty’: Dozens of chickens killed at NSW high school
NSW Police are investigating after 29 birds were slaughtered south of Sydney.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
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