Better dams offer major benefits to farmers and livestock

22 Jul 2024

Managing the water quality of farm dams is critical to the health of livestock as well as boosting crop production, according to new research from the ANU...

Everybody needs good neighbours: resident quolls help newcomers settle in at Mulligans Flat

4 Jul 2024

GPS tracking collars revealed how newly reintroduced eastern quolls are being welcomed with open paws.

Intimate private lives of blue whales revealed for the first time

4 Jul 2024

Some of the first ever recorded evidence of reproduction in blue whales, including underwater footage of a mother nursing its calf, has been captured as part...

Our tall, wet forests were not open and park-like when colonists arrived – and we shouldn’t be burning them

29 Apr 2024

What does the evidence say about what tall, wet forests actually looked like 250 years ago? The answer matters because it influences how these forests are...

Free as a bird: how forensic genomics is helping to stop wildlife trafficking

22 Apr 2024

Dubbed "CSI, but for parrots", Dr George Olah is creating a forensic genomic toolkit which will help authorities to track the routes of illegally...

Can a wild animal make your house feel like a home?

25 Mar 2024

What business does a wild animal have in contributing to our domestic bliss?

Australia’s most at-risk bird species share some common traits

15 Feb 2024

Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University has...

Can more ethical histories be written about early colonial expeditions? A new project seeks to do just that

14 Feb 2024

A new project seeks to rewrite this period of history – and others – to honour the voices and experiences of Aboriginal people whose contributions to colonial-...

The good news: 25 Australian birds are now at less risk of extinction. The bad news: 29 are gone and 4 more might be

12 Feb 2024

What does it mean to save threatened species? How often do we achieve it? And how often do we fail? New research answers these questions for Australian birds.

Could birdwatching save biodiversity?

22 Nov 2023

Colombia has more bird species than any other country in the world, so you can imagine that leading their bird conservation strategy is a pretty big job. Just...

Fire is consuming more than ever of the world’s forests, threatening supplies of wood and paper

15 Nov 2023

The amount of timber-producing forest burning each year in severe wildfires has increased significantly in the past decade, and threatens industries such as...

Chough love: What’s behind the strange antics of the white-winged chough?

13 Nov 2023

The white-winged chough is one of the weirder birds out there.