Conservation

A program re-introducing brush-tailed bettongs to a conservation area in the Pilliga State Forest shows promise, after an east-coast extinction lasting more than 100 years.

Insectivorous bats are tiny, quiet and worth about $63 million to the cotton industry. A study of the creatures, some of which are under threat, has been expanded in NSW.

The Goulburn Islands are a haven for endangered turtles, and as climate change causes sea levels to rise rangers are worried erosion is causing the turtle numbers to decline.

The release of 70 spotted tree frogs on Mount Beauty is the first since 26 were recovered in 2021 after the 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires. Zoos Victoria says the bushfires destroyed 50 per cent of the frogs known Victorian habitat.

Biologist Deon Gilbert says this month's Victorian release of 70 juveniles from a spotted tree frog breeding pool is incredibly heartwarming.

University of New England got more than they bargained for when a set of twins hatched from the same egg. The UNE-led program has led to the incubation and release of 3000 Bell's turtles into the New England region.

A major university research project into critical peatland ecosystems in Western Australia has been given $1.4 million by a philanthropic organisation.

As traffic once again came to a standstill on the major highway between Perth and Margaret River today, Western Australia's transport minister promised the end was in sight for chronic congestion on the region's major roads.

Locally extinct from Western Australia's northern Wheatbelt for almost a century, a brushtail possum has been photographed out and about, signalling a landscape-scale conservation success.

A new platypus haven at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo will aid conservation efforts by providing a home for up to 65 of the animals during drought, bushfire and flood.

Volunteers monitoring the recovering Granite Island penguin population say the fox-proof gate on the causeway to the island is frequently left by pedestrians. They are frustrated and say the small colony could be wiped out in one night if a better solution is not engineered.

A court has ordered Sydney Water to repair eroded banks of a Penrith creek, but a possible fix has alarmed conservationists. 

The two men did not know whale sharks could be found in waters off Queensland's south-east coast until the inquisitive creature glided up next to their boat.

The state government purchases a large parcel of land that will be added to the Daisy Hill Conservation Park, which features mountain bike tracks, walking paths, picnic areas, horse riding trails, and a koala centre.

Geoscience technology services company CGG formally submitted its permit application and environmental plan in late January amid a month-long campaign of community protests.

Only 90 Wollemi pines are left in the wild. Now Conservationists are planting hundreds more in secret locations to try to save a species which has outlived the dinosaurs.

The Wollemi Pine was thought to have gone extinct two million years ago, until an off-duty ranger stumbled across a grove. Now, experts are doing everything they can to give the tree a second chance. 

Staff based at Jindabyne have been the subject of "escalating social media campaigns", as well as a firebomb threat and the dumping of a decapitated horse head, according to evidence shared during a NSW Upper House inquiry.

There was once thought to be fewer than 1,000 numbats left in the wild, but a new study in southern Western Australia suggests that number is far greater.

Scientists have moved 25 red handfish to a facility near Hobart in order to protect them from a potentially deadly marine heatwave.

Environmentalist Bob Brown's foundation is challenging the legality of logging at a forestry coupe in the Huon Valley, south of Hobart.

Researchers are about to travel to one of the most remote places on earth for the first time since 1991. But while humans have barely stepped foot on Ducie Island in decades, scientists are expecting to find plenty of plastic there.

A permit application for the largest marine seismic survey proposal recorded is under assessment at the same time the offshore regulator is investigating the company funding the project for alleged 2020 breaches in the Otway Basin.

The two-month vehicle ban on Broome's famous beach is hailed a success with no reports of turtles injured by vehicles and more than 70 nests identified.

Michelle and Sam Crisp were appalled to find a mass of marine debris wash up on their local beach. But rather than send the waste to landfill, they transformed it into art.