Endangered and Protected Species

A program re-introducing brush-tailed bettongs to a conservation area in the Pilliga State Forest shows promise, after an east-coast extinction lasting more than 100 years.

When scientists discovered seven baby Bell's turtles in a batch of six incubated eggs in the NSW Northern Tablelands recently, they were initially stumped.

A new platypus haven at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo will aid conservation efforts by providing a home for up to 65 of the animals during drought, bushfire and flood.

These glassfish were facing certain death in an almost dry lake before conservationists and government agencies whisked them to safety on the tray of a ute.

The Wollemi Pine was thought to have gone extinct two million years ago, until an off-duty ranger stumbled across a grove. Now, experts are doing everything they can to give the tree a second chance. 

There was once thought to be fewer than 1,000 numbats left in the wild, but a new study in southern Western Australia suggests that number is far greater.

Environmentalist Bob Brown's foundation is challenging the legality of logging at a forestry coupe in the Huon Valley, south of Hobart.

Only two infertile northern white rhinos exist in the world, and the breakthrough in a different subspecies is giving conservationists hope.

The southern shovel-nosed snake and spotted military dragon are among the species found in the area for the first time.

Northern White Rhinos are on the cusp of extinction, but there's hope after scientists performed the first successful embryo transfer in its closely related southern species.

Scientists have carried out the first successful embryo transfer in a southern white rhino using a method that could pave the way to saving its critically endangered northern cousin from extinction.

Spotting an endangered Gouldian finch at Lake Argyle in the Kimberley is a treat for any bird lover, but the impact of two large bushfires, believed to have started from campfires, has worried locals and scientists.

Woylies play an important part in the Australian ecosystem but their numbers dwindled because of foxes and feral cats. Now, conservationists are seeing signs of a comeback.

A Byron Bay vet team is searching for a suitable feather donor for a procedure they hope will help get an injured wedge-tailed eagle soaring again.

The new cub at Altina Wildlife Park near Wagga Wagga is the first born in Australia for two years — and with only 10,000 red pandas left worldwide, breeding programs like it are key to survival of the species.

Researchers say they have found dangerous chemicals in little penguin habitat and populations around Tasmania.

An environmental expert says noise and rocket launches run a "very high risk" that the endangered southern emu-wrens will "disappear" from the area.

Researchers are trying to figure out what is causing the deaths of the Mary River turtles they have spent years trying to save.

Fisheries officers are expected to take further action against a man for illegally spearing three female blue gropers at Jervis Bay off the NSW South Coast after seizing both the fish and all his fishing gear.

Environmental activists and community members fighting a wind farm planned for Robbins Island, off Tasmania's north-west, say their upcoming court appeal is likely to be the end of the road for them, with money — and hope — running dry.

A Portland resident was horrified to find a dead koala dumped on the side of a dirt road. But then two days later, two more were found at the same location.

Sandy golden beaches are a tourism jackpot for the Sunshine State, and the Queensland government literally kills to keep it that way.

A WA wildlife carer says she nearly "wet her pants" with excitement, after an endangered western swamp tortoise was found on a dirt track near her home town of Northcliffe.

The flying fox is one of Australia's most important native species but volunteers who care for their injured are stretched to the limit and in need of more supprt.

Wildlife carers say grey-headed flying foxes are "amazing creatures" — but the species is dying at an alarming rate, and they're running out of volunteers to help save them.