5+ hour, 25+ min ago  (157+ words) VIDEO: Ode to a Big Country: The Paddock Trapper'Australian Broadcasting Corporation VIDEO: Ode to a Big Country: The Paddock Trapper Skins from freshly trapped animals hang to dry on the walls of a shed in Tasmania's high country (1980). From the…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago  (342+ words) This black cockatoo, spotted around Bunbury, has unique orange feathers. (Supplied: Julie Guglielmana) A rare condition, impacting as few as one in every 30, 000 birds, is behind a unique orange red-tailed black cockatoo sighted in Southern WA. Already threatened by development…...

11+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1327+ words) Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) is the apex predator of the Murray-Darling Basin river system. (Flickr: Murray Cod/Guo Chai Lim/CC BY-NC-ND 2. 0) At up to 1. 8 metres in length and weighing more than 50 kilograms, the Murray cod is the apex predator…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (721+ words) The Stirling Range National Park is a floral diversity hotspot. (Supplied: DBCA) If you take a hike across the mountain tops of the Stirling Range National Park in WA's south, you might be lucky enough to come across a plant…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (400+ words) A dolphin has been spotted in the Yarra River as far up the waterway as Herring Island at South Yarra. Researchers say it appears to be an adult bottlenose dolphin in good health. People have been advised not to deliberately…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (95+ words) abc. net. au VIDEO: Vision of Parks Victoria's new AI tool identifying animals captured on field cameras in state parks A screenshot from vision supplied by Parks Victoria of its AI tool identifying a wombat in footage captured on Parks…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (877+ words) A leading researcher says insufficient data could be to blame for the platypus not being classified as a threatened species in NSW. A five-year research project is collecting data in rivers to try to help platypuses survive. A leading researcher…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1257+ words) A new AI tool will help Parks Victoria to respond in a mere fraction of the time to native and endangered species affected by natural disasters, including the summer bushfires. The species recognition model uses high-speed AI to process 20 images…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (969+ words) The fence keeps feral cats and foxes out and natives like the eastern barred bandicoot in. (Supplied: Pete James) Ecologist Damian Jones is constantly reminded of the menace feral predators pose to Australian wildlife. Every week, riding a four-wheel motorbike,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (510+ words) A retired Sea Shepherd vessel used in anti-whaling campaigns has been restored and primed for a conservation comeback. The flagship vessel was rescued from the scrap heap in 2019, with skipper Kerrie Goodall spending more than 4, 000 hours to bring it back…...