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The first wave of bird flu is the worst: what Australia can learn from overseas
3+ week, 2+ day ago (958+ words) bird flu as an unstoppable wave set to decimate Australian birds and mammals. But that’s not set in stone....
First bird flu death in an Australian mainland mammal is a grim milestone. We know how bad
2+ week, 6+ day ago (877+ words) For the first time, the virus has infected an Australian mainland mammal: a long-nosed fur seal found...For already threatened species – such as the Australian sea lion, the Antarctic fur seal and the southern...Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. The…...
How Indigenous Protected Areas became a vital way to protect nature in Australia
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (913+ words) conservation in Australia, chances are you’ll think of a national park. But there’s another fast-growing way of...dedicated, an IPA becomes part of Australia’s National Reserve System – our network of protected areas....cultural burning and many other tasks. In 2022, the…...
Listening to the bush: How AI can help NZ rid its wildnerness of ‘hold-out’ pest possums
2+ week, 6+ day ago (835+ words) Possums are among New Zealand’s most destructive introduced mammals. They damage native forests, prey on wildlife and remain a major target of the country’s Predator Free 2050 programme. But removing most possums from an area through predator control is only part…...
Australia’s lizards and snakes are in far more trouble than we thought. It’s time to act
2+ week, 3+ day ago (552+ words) Australia is famous for its lizards and snakes. But we found at least 127 species are threatened – almost twice as many as previously thought....
Iconic Australian mammals could be at real risk from bird flu. Could we protect them using
2+ week, 3+ day ago (944+ words) devils in the near future. We can’t vaccinate all Australian wildlife – and we don’t have the data to predict which Australian species will be most vulnerable to bird flu –...
NZ has spent years preparing for H5N1 bird flu. For some species, it may not be enough
3+ week, 5+ day ago (449+ words) With H5N1 now in New Zealand, protecting the most threatened birds will involve difficult decisions, careful prioritisation – and sometimes chance....
How we found Haida Gwaii’s first marbled murrelet nest in more than 30 years
3+ week, 4+ day ago (900+ words) Scrambling through dense salal in the dark, weaving between the majestic western red cedars of northern Haida Gwaii, I could barely imagine where we were just days before — crossing Dixon Entrance off the coast in an open skiff, pushing head-on…...
Africa’s herbarium collections are a scientific treasure. They need to be digitised before more biodiversity is lost
2+ week, 3+ day ago (754+ words) Universities and biodiversity institutes have hidden treasures: their collections of pressed plant specimens. These are plants that have been flattened, dried and mounted on special cardboard sheets. Some of them were collected centuries ago. They hold information about where species…...
Antarctic krill fishing is now concentrated in the exact pattern conservation rules were designed to prevent
3+ week, 1+ day ago (587+ words) The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That’s the second consecutive year of an early closing. The fishing industry…...