Significant reductions in illegal poaching are necessary to prevent the extinction of vulnerable species. Current privacy and surveillance laws can complicate digital tracking of illegal wildlife ...

Pigs, camels, rabbits and many others were brought to Australia deliberately as valuable species. But we see them very ...

Every year, the upper Zambesi River breaks its banks and spreads across the wide Barotse floodplains in Zambia. These ...

In George Orwell's 1945 allegorical novella "Animal Farm," pigs coach the other revolutionary farm animals in their new creed ...

It’s a sight to behold. Each spring, thousands of solitary bees (Amegilla dawsoni), also known as Dawson’s burrowing bees, emerge from burrows scattered across Western Australia’s arid plains. These ...

Australia can lay claim to two new species of native rodent thanks to a study from The Australian National University (ANU). The aptly named delicate mouse was previously thought to be a single ...

Good rainfall and growing resistance to viruses are to blame for growing populations around the country, scientists say ...

If you had to pick the countries where invasive species pose the biggest problems, you probably wouldn’t think of Australia.

Humans have been turning wild animals into pets for thousands of years. Pets – animals kept for companionship, not for food or work – were widespread in ancient Egypt. In Australia, First Nations ...

In Australia in May 2026, Yang Zeng, a 28-year-old Chinese national who was unlawfully in the country, was sentenced to two ...