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A koala.

‘Historic win’: Australian state approves national koala park despite controversial funding

Paul Harvey 29 Oct 2026
An elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

At Yerevan’s COP17 biodiversity summit, a steep climb ahead for ‘30 by 30’ target

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Oct 2026
Lobe coral (Porites lobata).

Corals keep a record of pollution, pointing to a new monitoring method: Study

Edward Carver 26 Oct 2026

A millennium of evidence reveals colonial roots of Australia’s wildfire vulnerability

Naina Rao 26 Oct 2026
Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)

World Kangaroo Day: How climate change impacts Australia’s macropods

Cooper Williams 24 Oct 2026
Ballista Spider

This spider catapults ants

Romi Castagnino 23 Oct 2026

For Australia’s Indigenous Desert Alliance, caring for Country starts with a story

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Oct 2026
Giant kelp in Port Davey, Tasmania. Image courtesy of Stefan Andrews.

Funding uncertainty threatens Tasmania’s gains against kelp-grazing sea urchins

Amina McCauley 19 Oct 2026
Wandering albatrosses on South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean that’s a key breeding spot for this and other albatross species. The species’ population on the island has declined significantly in recent decades.

Nations at southern bluefin tuna meeting stop short of adopting new seabird protections

Edward Carver 15 Oct 2026
Advanced Aquarium Technologies New Zealand recently developed smaller, more mobile UV-C tools that are better suited for rocky and reef habitats.

New Zealand builds an arsenal of tools to battle a ‘wily’ invasive seaweed

Edward Carver 13 Oct 2026

Australia’s new eco police flexes muscles with major wildlife trafficking bust

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2026
An Australian sea lions (Neophoca cinerea)

Invading the globe: Bird flu now threatens Australia and Oceania

Christine Heinrichs 7 Oct 2026

In Australia’s Wet Tropics, restoration misses the forest for the tree cover

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2026
Townsville city in Queensland suffered significant damage during Tropical Cyclone Yasi in 2011. Image by Bannon Keft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Rising seas could cost Australia economic losses of $855 billion, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Oct 2026

Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Sep 2026
A yellow-eyed penguin.

As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets

Edward Carver 28 Sep 2026
Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) with a joey in its pouch on the beach at Trial Bay in New South Wales, Australia.

As Australia’s kangaroo numbers rise, record cull renews calls for other control methods

Cooper Williams 28 Sep 2026
In this operation, enforcement officials recovered 28 native reptiles, including shingleback lizards (pictured here), spiny-tailed skinks and lace monitors. Image courtesy of the National Environmental Protection Agency.

Reptiles, gold and money: How Australia is cracking down on wildlife trafficking

Johan Augustin 23 Sep 2026

H5N1 bird flu jumps to marine mammals and wildlife in Australia

Naina Rao 21 Sep 2026

‘You Belong with Me:’ Taylor Swift has a new genus of bug named after her

David Brown 18 Sep 2026
Image: Elephant puppet created by Greg Corbino created for Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals by Stephanie Ann Boyd. Photo courtesy of Ocean Music Action.

‘Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals’ celebrates species with song

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2026
Spinach pipefish is an endemic species found in Papua New Guinea's Sepik River. It was not seen by scientists for more than four decades. Image Courtesy of New Guinea Binatang Research Centre.

Indigenous fisherwoman finds ‘lost’ spinach pipefish, not seen by science in 40 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Sep 2026
Fishing vessels in Dunedin, New Zealand.

New Zealand put fishing boats under camera surveillance. Will it stay the course?

Edward Carver 9 Sep 2026
Wildlife of all kinds is for sale in Bangkok’s Chatuchak Market’s ‘Pets’ zone, with growing numbers coming from Latin America.

Why is Amazonian wildlife turning up at a Bangkok market?

Gloria Dickie 8 Sep 2026

New nocturnal snake from New Guinea named after Slash of Guns N’ Roses

Naina Rao 7 Sep 2026
Phillip “Bibido” McCarthy. Image courtesy of ABC Kimberley/Dunja Karagic.

Indigenous knowledge helps reveal the ties between reefs and mangroves

Anthony Ham 6 Sep 2026

Indigenous rangers pull killer ‘ghost nets’ from Australia’s northern coast

Liz Kimbrough 31 Aug 2026
The superb fairywren is one of 30 endemic Australasian wrens.

Superb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save them

Cooper Williams 31 Aug 2026
An Australian eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus).

The conservation population of Australia’s endangered eastern quoll welcomes joeys

Paul Harvey 28 Aug 2026
Minerva Hills National Park. Image courtesy of Nathan White/Tourism and Events Queensland.

Australia’s 30×30 conservation promise matters a lot, but how it’s achieved is key (commentary)

Tim Nicol 27 Aug 2026
A sponge crab (Sphaerodromia brizops) collected at the Muirfield Seamount, southwest of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Scientists discover 149 new deep-sea species at remote Indian Ocean seamounts

Emma Smith 26 Aug 2026
A bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) in Albert Park, Victoria.

Bogong moths support Australia’s alpine ecosystems, but face uncertain future

Hannah Thomasy 25 Aug 2026

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