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Researchers find dramatic restoration on land and sea after island rat removal

Bobby Bascomb 13 Jun 2026
Great Cumbung Swamp

Indigenous organization buys wetland property in Australia to help conserve it

Megan Strauss 12 Jun 2026
A dead dusky morwong (Dactylophora nigricans) lies on a bed of seaweed at the water’s edge.

A year on, Australia’s biggest harmful algal bloom continues to wreak havoc

Nick Rodway 8 Jun 2026
This platypus is ready for release, after being captured, weighed, measured and given a health assessment.

What the platypus can teach us about smarter conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jun 2026
Male and female Kongobatha spinosistyla in North Queensland. Image by Maurice Allan.

Three new ‘planking’ praying mantis species found in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Megan Strauss 8 Jun 2026
Harsh sun floods the homes of local families. Their belongings are either stored away or ruined by the storm. Family artifacts and heirlooms now litter living spaces as jagged wood hangs from rafters. Image by World Central Kitchen via Flickr (CC BY 4.0).

From the wreckage of Super Typhoon Sinlaku, Pacific Islanders slowly recover

Anita Hofschneider 3 Jun 2026
A purebred dingo on K’gari, the world's largest sand island.

National platform launches in Australia to turn wildlife imagery into action

Megan Strauss 2 Jun 2026
A koala by Bernard Spragg. NZ via Flickr (CC0).

Australia has the money to protect nature. It just isn’t spending it, expert says

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 2026
Model of Jiaolong submersible at the Five-Year Achievements Exhibition. Image by N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 1 Jun 2026

New species of ghost pipefish named after Sesame Street character found in Australia

Naina Rao 28 May 2026
Deep-sea starfish in American Samoa

US prepares to auction leases for seabed mining blocks in federal waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 May 2026
A platypus swimming

Reintroduced platypus population ‘tracking well’ in Australia’s oldest national park

Megan Strauss 27 May 2026
Black-flanked Rock Wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) in Cape Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia. The Australian Government has classed this wallaby as endangered under the EPBC Act. Image by Dsyzdek (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist

Mike DiGirolamo 26 May 2026
The composition of Queensland’s rainforests would change without cassowaries dispersing seeds, and some plants may become greatly restricted or even threatened with extinction. Image by the Gondwana Rainforest Trust.

Amid efforts to save Australia’s southern cassowaries, their numbers remain unknown

Cooper Williams 26 May 2026
The plight of koalas was a factor in creating this new national park, but 66 threatened animals and 37 threatened flora species are also found here.

Great Koala National Park tests whether protected forests can stay connected

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 May 2026
The Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) frequents the western side of Cawleys Bridge, and it is hoped the bridge will reinforce the wombat population in Royal National Park. Image courtesy of Simone Cottrell / DCCEEW.

Above an Australian highway, a bridge reconnects wilderness for quolls, koalas and other animals

Starre Vartan 22 May 2026
Combining satellite images helped reveal reefs in northern Australia.

More than 1,000 uncharted coral reefs mapped in vast, understudied northern Australia

Megan Strauss 21 May 2026

New conservation effort launched to protect coral reefs in Yap

Naina Rao 21 May 2026
This elusive animal hunts in the dim light of dawn and dusk, making it difficult to observe and hard to count. One of the few ways to survey them is by laying nets, pictured here.

An Australian icon, the platypus is struggling — and scientists still lack answers

Paul Harvey 20 May 2026
A New Zealand long-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata). Image © hrubbo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

‘We’ve got bats’: The community bringing New Zealand’s pekapeka into the spotlight

Isabel Gil 19 May 2026
Gray Koala Sitting On A Tree Branch

How AI could save koalas

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 May 2026
An Australian flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus). Image by Dylan Goldspink.

Karajarri celebrate Australia’s first ‘Sea Country’ Indigenous Protected Area

John Cannon 14 May 2026
Dove Lake beneath Cradle Mountain in Tasmania’s highlands, where cool, ocean-influenced conditions have helped slow the pace of climate change across the landscape. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

Long dubbed a ‘climate refuge,’ warming Tasmanian forests need our help

Stefan Lovgren 12 May 2026
Kea parrot Bruce at New Zealand’s Willowbank Wildlife Reserve. Images courtesy of Alexander Grabham.

No beak = weak? Not for this New Zealand parrot that’s the alpha male of his flock

Shanna Hanbury 12 May 2026
Jerry Jangala running a question-and-answer session out on country for participants in the workshop. Image by Anthony Ham.

Using songlines, elders codify traditional knowledge to care for Country

Anthony Ham 7 May 2026
A koala.

Australia’s new national park links habitat to protect koalas

Johan Augustin 6 May 2026
A controlled burn in north east Victoria over the autumn period to reduce fuel load for summer fires. Photo: Michael Reid

Australia’s declining tree health is a slow-burning crisis (commentary)

Michael Reid, Ted Alter 5 May 2026
Baudin’s black cockatoo flying

Black cockatoo species caught in the crosshairs of global race for minerals

Aimee Gabay 29 Apr 2026
Philidris nagasau, an ant species endemic to Fiji that farms Squamellaria plants. Image by Eli M. Sarnat via AntWeb (CC BY 4.0).

Novel DNA research shows massive native ant decline over hundreds of years in Fiji

Shanna Hanbury 28 Apr 2026
A newly described species of skink named Kungaka

Indigenous knowledge helps identify new, highly threatened skink in Australia

Megan Strauss 24 Apr 2026

Chile’s plan to protect another 10% of its ocean is stalled by the new government

Shanna Hanbury 23 Apr 2026
Alpine Ash forest in the Baw Baw National Park, Victoria. Photo by Chris Taylor

What the grim outlook for Alpine Ash forests tells us about forestry dogma (commentary)

Chris Taylor, David Lindenmayer 19 Apr 2026

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