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29 Jan 2021
The Fenner School farewelled to 2020 with two of our graduates receiving The University Medal for their studies: Master of Environment (Advanced) graduate Anna...
20 Jan 2021
Climate scientist and writer Joëlle Gergis speaks about the incalculable loss already suffered due to climate change and why the only way forward is to...
18 Jan 2021
Habitat destruction by logging and agriculture is pushing parrot species towards extinction, while current protected areas are failing to mitigate these...
13 Jan 2021
The first aerial survey since the catastrophic 2019 bushfires has found that the number of wild horses in the Kosciuszko National Park has fallen by more than...
4 Jan 2021
In 2020 - the year of shutdowns and lockdowns - Fenner School Director Dr Saul Cunningham decided to pursue developing genetic labs at the School, and sought...
22 Dec 2020
NSW will triple the size of its feral-free sanctuaries as it steps up efforts to bring back marsupials previously wiped out by threats such as cats and...
21 Dec 2020
Australia's beautiful and elusive palm cockatoos, are expected to more than halve in number in the next 50 years, according to new research from the ANU.
20 Dec 2020
Researchers at The Australian National University found quolls can hunt small mammals, invertebrates, birds, reptiles, frogs and fish in a new study.
10 Dec 2020
When Fenner Masters graduate Yiwen Chen led a review of irrigation in the Murray Darling with Prof. Jamie Pittock, Dr. Matthew Colloff and Dr Anna Lukasiewicz...
9 Dec 2020
According to a new study, the mass of all our stuff—buildings, roads, cars, and everything else we manufacture—now exceeds the weight of all living things on...
8 Dec 2020
Australians are now being urged to embrace the native bird just as we do with our koalas and kangaroos. Urban ecologist and ibis expert Matthew Chard told The...
19 Nov 2020
The majority of environmental water redirected from irrigators under the $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan isn't being delivered to its intended...