Without urgent action, a species that helps hold rainforests together might be gone for good.
- Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University
If a colony of flying foxes sets up in your backyard, you might be annoyed – or concerned. But these gentle bats are vital to our forests.
Australia has half as much forest as it did before colonisation. Restoring it can be hugely expensive. But new approaches can help
Nine mammals in Northern Australia are at risk of extinction in the next two decades – and we know little about this home-grown crisis.
About half of environmental scientists working for government had been prohibited from communicating scientific information.
Up to 8,000 spectacled flying-foxes, around 12% of the species’ population, will be forced to leave their home in central Cairns.
Six months after huge floods swept Queensland we can start to appreciate the huge effect they had on native species.
Australia relies on Indigenous people to meet our conservation goals, but they’re short-changed by federal funding.
Most of Australia’s plants and animals are found nowhere else on Earth. This remarkable biodiversity requires a bolder, brighter conservation vision.
The failed attempt to reinstate land clearing regulations in Queensland has prompted ‘panic clearing’, pushing Australia into the global top-ten deforesters.
Australia is among seven countries contributing to more than half of the world’s biodiversity loss. Yet next month, a crucial network of long-term research sites will lose funding.
The future of Cape York Peninsula – home to many of Australia’s unique birds, mammals, frogs and reptiles – is currently under review. Prime Minister Tony Abbott recently launched the first stage of a…
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