Wildlife
Need a laugh? This year’s funniest wildlife photos named
A high-kicking gorilla, a seabird in a headlock and a heron hitching a ride on a hippo lead this year’s winners of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
- Katherine Scott
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Australia's rarest bird of prey found in WA's north-west
A red goshawk nest has been discovered deep in the Kimberley. Credit: Trade Creative
This drastic measure scares many gardeners. It will pay you back in spades
The slightly daggy cousin of flashier plants, the shrub is the staple of many gardens. A tough love approach to maintenance will see fortune favour the brave.
- Megan Backhouse
Elephant hides behind tree
An elephant materialises silently from the bush just 10 metres away from our chalets at Mjejane Bush Camp, which adjoins the Kruger National Park.
Mystery surge of turtle deaths in protected Australian waters
Dozens of endangered green turtles and one dugong have died and been washed ashore near Brisbane.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The premier, the poet and the fight to save a frog
It’s a story almost too preposterous to believe, starring a group of uni students, an infamous state premier, a legendary Australian poet and an extinct frog that gave birth by vomiting its young.
- Andrew Stafford
‘That couldn’t be what it looks like?’ The ‘lion’ that left Ireland on edge
Builders first noticed the animal roaming the woods in west Clare. Then a forest manager received a grainy video on his phone. That’s when the police got involved.
- Ali Watkins
Dead eels and gasping fish: Gold Coast council told to fix sewer issues
The latest order follows the discovery of a corroded pipe that leaked 450 million litres of sewage into the Albert River.
- Julius Dennis
More than 100 donkeys to be shot after Kimberley station owner loses long-running court battle
Chris and Jacqueline Henggeler have argued that the donkeys have been useful to restoring ecosystems on their 78,000 hectare cattle property and have spent years trying to protect them.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
‘Almost ashamed to be Australian’: Council fights the state’s kangaroo-culling program
The Yarra Ranges Council is fighting to ban kangaroo harvesting in its municipality but the state government has rejected the plea.
- Gemma Grant
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