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Logging site at Mt Horsfall.

Inside the fight to save the last Victorian Highlands forest fairies

Faced with ‘government inaction’ on protecting Australia’s most critically endangered animals, these campaigners are taking matters into their own hands.

  • Bianca Hall

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The Australian Reptile Park expects a spike in Sydney funnel-web numbers.

‘More abundant’: Spider season spikes as summer ends

Sydneysiders can expect to see a lot more spiders, including deadly funnel-webs, as weather becomes perfect for arachnids.

  • Angus Dalton
Peacocks in suburban Ourimbah.

Cause of mysterious peacock deaths revealed in environmental Cluedo

The environmental watchdog has found six peacocks from a wild population on the Central Coast died from eating pesticide pellets, in what may have been a deliberate poisoning.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Police are searching for multiple offenders after 10 wombats were discovered killed in Venus Bay.

‘Carnage’: Killers on the loose after wombats deliberately mown down

Residents in Victoria’s south-east were horrified to wake to the sight of wombats strewn on the roadside, with at least 10 killed within a few hundred metres.

  • Bianca Hall
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Has necrology hit a dead end?

Or was the reaper just resting up?

The Western Quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii), also known as the Chuditch is a vulnerable species, whose distribution is now confined to south-western Western Australia.

Australia-first study finds rat poison in rare Perth Hills chuditch

New evidence shows the first confirmed cases of rat poisoning in native Australian marsupial carnivores.

  • Claire Ottaviano
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Fears for future of WA’s iconic black swans after cygnet deaths

A frightening reality for the future of our black swans has emerged as wildlife groups rally to move young swans to wetter ground.

  • Claire Ottaviano
A whale shark that popped up beside a boat off the coast of Bermagui.

The water is so warm, even whale sharks are heading south for summer

The ocean giants are commonly seen at Ningaloo Reef in WA. Astonishingly, one turned up on the NSW coast.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The Great Barrier Reef is under threat.

To lose one tourism icon is a misfortune. To lose two? Carelessness

If we lose these two icons, the effect on tourism will ultimately be the least of our problems.

  • Lee Tulloch
Putricia the corpse flower’s pollen germinating with plant ovary-seeking tubes through a microscope.

Behind the scenes at the Botanic Garden, it’s more zoo than greenhouse

Secret doors, smoke plumes, air locks, a million species and shipwrecked treasures: this world-renowned Sydney establishment could be the most biodiverse spot in the country.

  • Angus Dalton

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