A Critically Endangered reptile known only to occur in the grasslands around Melbourne has been spotted for the first time in ...
It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List, the world's most comprehensive global inventory on ...
One of the world's most critically endangers animals may be able to live in more areas than conservationists realised.
Australia's unique wildlife faces a silent crisis. Isolated evolution left many species vulnerable to modern threats like ...
Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...
A once-extinct marsupial has been released in Australia following a breeding programme designed to ensure its survival. The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 1991 after ...
Koalas were officially declared endangered Friday in eastern Australia. This comes as the marsupials continue to fall prey to chlamydia and lose their habitats to land clearing and climate change.