Australia is home to some of the most rare animals in the world, with nearly 80% of plants, mammals, reptiles, and frogs ...

Avian influenza first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown exponentially, alongside an ...

A number of animals, plants and an entire ecosystem were added to Australia's extinction watch list in 2024. We look at the new species under threat.

Fortunately, the paradise parrot is the only mainland Australian bird species that has been lost since Europeans colonized the island continent in 1788. New research published in Austral ...

Every day, cats kill more than one million birds in Australia. This means that three to four per cent of our birds are killed by cats each year. About 99 per cent of these birds are native. In fact, ...