From dusk to dawn: Call for Kangaroo Island speed limits
Wildlife photographer Doug Gimesy is calling for support to reduce dusk-to-dawn speed limits on Kangaroo Island in a bid to reduce the incidence of wildlife road trauma.
Wildlife photographer Doug Gimesy is calling for support to reduce dusk-to-dawn speed limits on Kangaroo Island in a bid to reduce the incidence of wildlife road trauma.
Recent research into one of Australia’s most famous living fossils, the rare Wollemi pine, has given further hope that the species can be brought back from the edge of extinction.
A new study has shown Tasmanian devils are evolving a resistance to the facial tumour disease threatening the future survival of the species.
If you like blending a challenge with conservation action, a new initiative called Edge Pledge might be for you.
A group of 42 scientists have written to NSW premier Mike Baird, calling for ‘humane and effective’ feral horse control.
The critically endangered swift parrot is receiving some help from a group of Victorian arborists.
Minister Greg Hunt has ordered the CSIRO to put emphasis back on climate science just months after the announcement of heavy funding and job cuts.
Whole Tree Chambers in NSW have been used to measure how rising temperatures might impact the ability of trees to continue functioning normally.
Homeward Bound plans to take a group of 90 women to Antarctica with the stated aim of providing them with the tools and networks needed to become world leaders, thereby creating a sustainable future for everyone.
Researchers studying caves in Western Australia reveal stalagmites could hold information about past fires that burned across the ground above.
One of the world’s largest cockatoo species, the palm cockatoo, is heading towards extinction at the hands of the mining industry, writes ACF’s Andrew Picone.
The locally extinct mountain Swainson-pea is being returned to Victoria via a five-year project led by government, environmental and community groups.
Australia’s bearded dragon lizard can change colour to assist in camouflage and social displays, but new research shows the ability may also save them up to 22 minutes of basking time each day.
Having only recently taken over operations of the struggling Garners Beach Cassowary Facility, conservation group Rainforest Reserves Australia is busy preparing its secondary facility to receive recovering cassowaries.
A community group of citizen scientists has become incensed following the release of a statement by VicForests that appears to claim their work for its own.
A subspecies of the common brushtail possum, the koomal, faces an uncertain future according to researchers in Western Australia.
Environmental researchers are calling for a code of practice in the use of drones for wildlife monitoring and other kinds of field research.
Forests in a NSW national park are undergoing a state-sanctioned logging experiment, despite being part of a Ramsar-listed wetland.
A new draft management plan has been released by the NSW government with the stated aim of reducing feral horse numbers in Kosciuszko National Park from 6,000 to 600 over 20 years.
Kakadu National Park is reportedly facing its driest wet season in the past two decades, with some experts forecasting records for low rainfall may be broken in some areas.
The CSIRO has gone some way to assuaging concerns regarding climate cutbacks with the announcement of a new Climate Science Centre, but expert responses indicate the measure doesn’t go far enough.
Nearing launch, Edge Pledge is a new business concept that works with non-profit organisations to motivate people to raise funds. How? By daring them to.
For the third time in as many months, a Gippsland-based environmental organisation has blown the whistle on VicForests for logging potentially protected rainforest in the region.
Conservationists Chad Beranek and Ed Hill provide a summary of the latest activities undertaken by citizen scientists in East Gippsland’s Kuark Forest.
A study developed to demonstrate ecotourism’s for threatened species suggests that some operations are likely doing more harm than good.
Bans on protesting, privacy erosion and antipathy towards whistleblowers. These are just a few examples of the sustained attack on Australia’s democracy, says the Human Rights Law Centre.
New research indicates that climate change may be having marked effects on the embryonic development of Australian zebra finches.
Five sites along the banks of Cooper Creek near Innamincka have been added to the National Heritage List in recognition of the historic Burke and Wills expedition.
Parks Victoria and the national parks it maintains have been critically underfunded for years, leaving environment groups to campaign the government for a change of tack in 2016.
Large tracts of arid Crown land in the lower Lake Eyre catchment is currently being used for grazing and mining activities. With the S. Kidman and Co. pastoral leases up for tender, is now the time to protect these unique habitats?