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2+ hour, 57+ min ago   (443+ words) 30 years, 1,553 frogs, 1,148 tortoises, 325 numbats, 286 craylings, and just one vital conservation program! One of Perth Zoo’s behind-the-scenes conservation programs is about to celebrate a huge milestone birthday. Established in 1996, the Zoo’s Native Species Breeding Program (NSBP) has supported a huge range…...

10+ hour, 25+ min ago   (318+ words) The Narrandera Koala Festival returns this weekend, September 19 and 20, to celebrate one of Australia’s great wildlife conservation stories. Once considered locally extinct, Narrandera’s koala population was re-established with the reintroduction of just 19 koalas in the 1970s. Today, more than 300 koalas are…...

1+ day, 34+ min ago   (691+ words) Researchers believe a floating garden of native Australian plants on a wastewater lagoon in Victoria's east could help tackle greenhouse gas emissions, after it cut the lagoon's emissions by about 30 percent. The floating wetland is part of a world-first study…...

1+ day, 17+ min ago   (591+ words) Comedian Harriet Kemsley, who was born and brought up in Canterbury, has opened up about her divorce in an emotional new television series. At one point, she was breaking down in tears as she reflected on one of the most…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1298+ words) (ABC News: Lindsay Dunbar) As we build more homes to tackle the housing crisis some worry trees will become collateral damage. But as our climate changes, isn't now the time we need trees most? Nick Rogers was working from home…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (502+ words) Australia’s effort to bring digging mammals back to an 8,000-hectare wildlife sanctuary has produced changes below the surface. Researchers studying Scotia Sanctuary in south-eastern Australia found that 8 years after reintroduced mammals were given access to areas, the communities of insects…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (11+ words) Christchurch’s Orana Wildlife Park faces ‘dire’ $4.1m funding hole The Press...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (352+ words) For the world's largest gliding marsupial, a few hectares of forest could mean the difference between survival and disappearing forever. While a newly announced 27-hectare expansion takes Seven Mile Beach National Park to a historic 1000-hectare milestone, local conservationists warn…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (909+ words) September 10, 2026 — 6:00am Native Australian bushland continues to be cleared at massive scale for cattle grazing, threatening the Great Barrier Reef and climate targets, despite federal efforts to rein in the practice and major supermarkets committing to stripping beef raised on cleared…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (163+ words) Scientists have also turned to bio-banking to protect the species' genetic diversity. Researchers at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance have collected and cryopreserved sperm samples from male mountain yellow-legged frogs, a technique that could enable future artificial reproduction without…...