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Todd Graham and his 13-year-old dog Norman.

The wellness industry is coming for your cats and dogs

As pet ownership is growing fast, so too is the alternative pet-health market, projected to be worth $150 million by 2030.

  • Liam Mannix and Henrietta Cook

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The Diprotodon Optatum, the largest marsupial that ever lived.

Big as a minivan and jaws like a garbage compactor: Meet the Australian Museum’s latest star

Australia is pitching its oversized megafauna as its latest “dangerous” tourist attraction.

  • Linda Morris
Oh deer: the feral problem in Victoria.

Farmers’ campaign against feral deer trapped in Victoria’s red tape

Marie and David Trigg have fought for three years to control feral deer on their property, but say they have been met with bureaucratic delay.

  • Bianca Hall
Feather and Bone co-owner Grant Hilliard at this Marrickville production facility.

They say happy pigs are tasty pigs. Good Food’s No.1-ranked ham proves that

An independent butcher beat out the supermarkets for this year’s best Christmas ham. Judges found it to be silky and with a delicate balance of smoke and seasoning.

  • Bianca Hrovat
An elephant materialises silently from the bush just 10 metres away from our chalets at Mjejane Bush Camp, which adjoins the Kruger National Park.
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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.

A koala photographed last month on French Island, in an almost-denuded tree.

How do you save a starving koala?

The difficulty of moving koalas is again in focus following soaring numbers on French Island in Victoria, and deaths of translocated animals in NSW.

  • Bianca Hall
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BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - 2021/09/19: Cane Toad (Rhinella marina) in a shallow pond in boondall wetlands. (Photo by Joshua Prieto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

One of Australia’s worst pests is on the march to the Pilbara. But we have a ‘unique’ chance to stop them

A new study predicts that without containment efforts, cane toads will infest up to 75 per cent of the Pilbara within three decades.

  • Holly Thompson
The gastric brooding frog, which gave birth to live froglets out of its mouth, went extinct shortly after it was discovered.

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
A koala photographed last month on French Island, in an almost-denuded tree.

‘Horrific’ mass koala starvation hits Victorian island

Distressed locals have told of desperate koalas falling from trees and trying to eat vegetation such as pine needles.

  • Bianca Hall
Racing NSW traceability records reveal 30 thoroughbreds were taken to the farm in the 12 months before it was inspected.

Parliament House security manager charged after dead ex-racehorses found on farm

The RSPCA launched a probe after raiding a property in June with investigators from industry regulator Racing NSW and NSW Police.

  • Chris Barrett

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