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Crowdfunding aims to save the Tasmanian Devil
Open Forum | November 14, 2018A crowdfunding campaign has been launched by the University of Adelaide to help save the Tasmanian devil, one of Australia’s most iconic but endangered animals.
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Human activity threatens 25% of mammal species
Open Forum | November 13, 2018Human impacts such as deforestation and hunting are the biggest risk factors in the possible extinction of a quarter of all land-based mammals, according to a University of Queensland study.
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A ‘great and merciless thinning:’ the vanishing world of insects
Michael Malay | November 12, 2018Insect populations are plummeting around the world, due to pesticides, climate change and habitat loss, threatening the ecosystems which depend on them. Imagining the disappearance of species through literature can help motivate a real life fight for their survival.
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Saving the last of the Earth’s wilderness
Open Forum | November 2, 2018The world’s last wilderness areas are rapidly disappearing, and explicit international conservation targets critically needed to protect them.
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Farmers’ illegal slaughter of wedge-tailed eagles must end
Simon Cherriman | June 14, 2018The growing slaughter of native eagles by farmers across Australia threatens their survival and could further upset the nation’s fragile eco-system.
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Speeding natural selection in the name of conservation
Andrew Trounson | May 29, 2018A breeding experiment to genetically adapt quolls to resist toxic cane toads could lead to a new tool to help endangered creatures from corals to Tasmanian Devils
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It’s a small world for migratory birds
Andrew Peters | May 12, 2018Saturday, May 12 is World Migratory Bird Day and Dr Andrew Peters offers a unique perspective of their ecological importance based on his years of research in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.
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Hacking the reef
Open Forum | April 21, 2018Queensland’s innovation festival Myriad is hosting a ground-breaking creative think tank today to find solutions to the problem of plastics and other marine debris despoiling the Great Barrier Reef.
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The threatened species in our urban jungle
Kylie Soanes | April 20, 2018Far from being a biodiversity wasteland, our sprawling conurbations are home to some of Australia’s most threatened species. While some have already been lost, others can still be nurtured to maintain a toe-hold for nature in an increasingly man-made environment.
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Australia’s 2017 environment scorecard – Too hot to handle?
Albert Van Dijk | April 13, 2018Record-breaking temperatures stressed our ecosystems on land and sea in 2017, according to our annual environmental scorecard. Unfortunately, it looks like those records will be broken again next year – and again in the years after that.
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Research efforts step up to save the Great Barrier Reef
David Mead | April 11, 2018Australia’s leading coral reef researchers and managers have come together to address one of the most pressing environmental issues to face our Great Barrier Reef.
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Why the health of our ecosystems matters as much as their size
Ayesha Tulloch | April 9, 2018The Victorian mountain ash forest, like many other Australian habitats, has been severely affected by fires and logging. To determine the actual health of the forest, we need to look at the quality, not just the quantity, of what remains.