NSW parliament has rejected calls to urgently suspend logging over claims the Forestry Corporation is failing to properly look for endangered greater gliders.
A day after setting up a trap, wildlife officers have captured a three metre crocodile in a north Queensland marina - but not the one they targeted.
Rubber bullets may be used in a trial to drive crocodiles away from a central Queensland city under a revised management plan launched by the state government.
A public interest advocate is seeking special permission to be heard in court when the NSW government's logging business is sentenced for forest destruction.
Biodiversity continues to fall across NSW on almost every measure, with damaged and degraded landscapes less able to support life, a new report reveals.
Scientists from three research stations on the Great Barrier Reef have shared sobering accounts of the damage inflicted by the latest marine heatwave.
The NSW Forestry Corporation has again been accused of incompetently searching for endangered greater gliders before logging their habitat.
Conservation groups have sounded the alarm over a new Forestry Corporation compliance team that will focus heavily on logging protests in NSW.
Wildlife officers are hoping to identify a man who interfered with a floating, baited trap set to capture a four metre "problem crocodile" in north Queensland.
A glaciologist from subtropical Queensland is about to embark on an epic Arctic trek that combines science, adventure and an obscene amount of butter.
Wildlife officers have euthanised a four-metre crocodile days after a 16-year-old boy's body was found in mangroves on a far north Queensland island.
Federal government funds will be used to improve shorebird habitats in wetlands at the mouth of the River Murray in South Australia.
Scientists are rattled over the latest bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, saying it will not survive the ongoing exploitation of fossil fuels.
Molly the magpie will be returned to a family and their two dogs if certain conditions can be met with Queensland's environment department.
Coral bleaching driven by climate change has hit three quarters of the Great Barrier Reef as the federal government continues to fight an in-danger listing.
The NSW government is under renewed pressure to get out of the business of logging native forests, as politicians, academics and environmentalists join forces.
Australian-made car technology that will play sounds kangaroos don't like will be tested in motion after receiving university approval.
A leading expert says Australian governments are not doing what's needed to save the swift parrot, amid a new estimate there may be just 500 left.
The NSW Forestry Corporation has been fined for tearing down hollow-bearing trees inside an environmentally sensitive area in NSW.
Scientists say a recovery plan for the fastest parrot on earth won't save it after their work was altered - allegedly to favour state-owned logging interests.
Businessman and environmental activist Geoff Cousins expects a public campaign to end native forest logging in NSW to be an easy sell.
Analysts have offered a staggering new assessment of what Australia could lose to fire ants.
A zero-tolerance approach to feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park has been flagged by the federal government if culling fails to stop environmental harm.
A Sydney-based biologist has taken out a global award that asks scientists to harness the power of interpretive dance to convey complex research.
Corals are dying from severe bleaching around the Keppel Islands on the Great Barrier Reef, scientists say.
Scientists and conservation groups say a backflip by the NSW environmental watchdog will do little to shield greater gliders from the effects of logging.
Dingoes are continuing to terrorise tourists on the Queensland island of K'gari, with two more bitten in separate attacks.
One of Australia's rarest birds has given up its genetic secrets and it could boost the elusive creature's chances of evading extinction.
A 2.3-metre crocodile has been removed from a recreation area near Cairns as part of an ongoing program to remove animals bigger than two metres.
New logging rules that had experts fearing for the survival of the endangered greater glider will be revisited by the NSW environmental watchdog.
Scientists have told event managers to back off and keep their disruptive, showy events out of the nation's wildlife havens.
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