• Tiger sharks disappear from Queensland waters

    Open Forum     |      September 24, 2019

    New Griffith University research has revealed a 71% decline in tiger shark numbers along Queensland’s coastline, highlighting the collapse in fish stocks caused by over-fishing.

  • A lost species comes to life – in a graveyard

    Michael Kearney     |      September 22, 2019

    A rare insect species, the Key’s Matchstick Grasshopper, was thought to be extinct in Victoria but has now been rediscovered, giving hope for conserving its future.

  • Wildlife needs wilderness

    Open Forum     |      September 20, 2019

    The global conservation community has been urged to adopt a specific target to protect the world’s remaining wilderness areas to prevent the large scale loss of endangered species.

  • Why are the rain forests burning?

    Trent Penman     |      September 17, 2019

    Forests around the world – from the Amazon to South-East Asia and Australia – are on fire, largely due to the direct and indirect actions of man.

  • Farmers flouting land clearing laws threaten rare species

    Open Forum     |      September 10, 2019

    Farmers and developers have destroyed more than 7.7 million hectares of threatened species habitat in the 21st century, revealing critical failures in Australia’s federal and state environmental protection laws.

  • Phoenix from the ashes

    Kingsley Dixon     |      September 8, 2019

    Bushfires can devastate our precious forests, but their smoke also encourages the germination of long-buried seeds, a trick gardeners can use to coax seeds into life in their gardens.

  • Can we save the Tasmanian devil?

    Open Forum     |      September 7, 2019

    Released on National Threatened Species Day on 7 September ,a new book offers an update on the campaign to save the Tasmanian devil, which has suffered a dramatic reduction in numbers.

  • Protecting your garden from possums

    Daryl Holland     |      September 5, 2019

    When possums ravaged her garden, Professor Lynne Selwood fought back and invented a spray that protects plants from them without damaging the environment.

  • Habitat loss hits the birds of South East Australia

    Open Forum     |      September 4, 2019

    New research has found that habitat loss is a major concern for hundreds of Australian bird species, and south-eastern Australia has been the region worst affected.

  • Saving vines from bushfire smoke

    Stuart Winthrope     |      September 1, 2019

    Wine vintages can be ruined by smoke contamination from nearby bushfires, but new digital agriculture tools could help both large and small winemakers reduce the damage.

  • “Tough corals” offer hope for Australia’s mangroves

    Open Forum     |      September 1, 2019

    Scientists say that newly discovered ‘tough corals” must be protected to preserve fragile mangrove habitats threatened by climate change.

  • Protecting our last native grasslands

    Mike Letnic     |      August 1, 2019

    The Monaro grasslands are a tiny surviving fraction of the native grasslands that once grew across the Southern Tablelands, but even these are now threatened by farmers.