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A feral pig and NSW Premier Chris Minns.

Lipstick on a feral pig: Why NSW bounty-hunter plan should be culled

Placing a bounty on feral animals is expensive, won’t reduce the overall numbers, and just serves a political purpose.

  • Jack Gough

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Two humpback whales breaching off the coast of Manly this week.

Humpbacks are an Australian success story. They have two advantages that most whales don’t

It’s peak hour on the humpback highway off the east coast of Australia – yet other whale species aren’t doing nearly as well.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The huts in the 19th century and today.

‘Not like there’s a Mitre 10 down the road’: The mission to rebuild Kosciuszko’s famous huts

Hiker Hadi Nazari survived nearly two weeks in the mountains, helped by two muesli bars he reportedly found in one of the 60 mountain huts.

  • Julie Power
Leadbeater’s possums are critically endangered. Their population just grew by one.

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
Life in the suburbs brings with it a constant pressure to come up with things to do, including, befriending a possum.

From friend to foe: The possum in my driveway has become a problem

What started as a friendly game with a charming marsupial has evolved into a waking nightmare.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Parnee Bonson from Taronga Zoo with a species of snail from Norfolk Island that nearly went extinct.

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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Wildlife Victoria volunteer rescuer George Andriotis and CEO Lisa Palma.

‘Like a graveyard’: Roadkill incidents reach ‘crisis’ point

In Melbourne’s outer north-west, vehicles are hitting kangaroos at rates wildlife volunteers have never seen before, causing trauma for people and animals.

  • Adam Carey
Western Sydney Airport has raised concerns of bird strikes on aircraft

This $50m park poses an unlikely threat to Sydney’s new airport

The plans have sparked fears of strikes on low-flying aircraft due to an increase in birds and bats that may be drawn to the green space.

  • David Barwell
Professor Ian Wright and PhD candidate Katherine Warwick by the Wingecarribee River near Berrima sewage outfall, a known hotspot for platypus.

Revealed: The icky reason behind build-up of forever chemicals in Sydney catchment

NSW has the highest proportion of residents with cancer-causing PFAS chemicals - news which coincides with revelations that wastewater treatment plants are allowed to release treated effluent into rivers and creeks in the Warragamba catchment.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
A boy has been bitten by a dingo, which adults reportedly stabbed during the rescue.

Boy, 9, bitten by dingo, with animal injured as bystanders intervene

Rangers on K’gari have spent Friday afternoon tracking an injured dingo after the animal fled when bystanders intervened in an attack against a child. 

  • Catherine Strohfeldt

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/wildlife-640