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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

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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
Hunting influencer Sam Jones handles an echidna in a video posted to Instagram on February 4,

Next time, steal a crocodile: PM’s advice for US tourist after viral wombat video

The hunting influencer has posted videos showing her handling Australian animals including a wombat and an echidna. The minister for immigration wants her out of the country.

  • Penry Buckley, Kayla Olaya and Hamish Hastie
A pitbull

‘Playful’ dog accidentally shoots man in the leg

Jerald Kirkwood was in his bedroom when his one-year-old pit bull, Oreo, leapt onto the bed and got his paw stuck in the trigger guard of his gun.

  • Cameron Henderson
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Woman runs away with a wombat joey from its mother.

‘Just caught a baby wombat’: American influencer suffers backlash after viral video

The hunting influencer locked her social media accounts after posting a video showing her taking a baby wombat from its mother.

  • Kayla Olaya and Penry Buckley
Former WIRES volunteer Tracy Dods has been found guilty of aggravated animal cruelty over a kangaroo in her care.

Verdict over injured kangaroo to send ‘shockwaves’ through animal rescue community

A woman who cared for hundreds of kangaroos over five years as a volunteer for wildlife rescue service WIRES has been found guilty of aggravated animal cruelty.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Liz McLeod, care co-ordinator at the Friends of the Koala rehabilitation centre, with Troppo, a 10-month-old joey found at the base of a tree.

Alfred knocked koalas out of trees and swept a kangaroo into a drain

Wildlife rescue groups have reported an influx of injured native fauna and are planning a search-and-rescue mission for koalas across forests in northern NSW.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
A woman has been attacked by a shark at Gunyah Beach and suffered a serious leg injury.

Woman bitten by shark at south Sydney beach

Beaches have been closed across Bate Bay after a woman was bitten by a shark at Bundeena and suffered a serious leg injury.

  • Kayla Olaya and Nick Galvin

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