ABC FeedsBandicoots bounce back in Brown Hill Creek as team works towards 'superhighway'
By Malcolm Sutton
A small colony of endangered brown bandicoots just south of Adelaide continue to breed as conservationists hope to connect them with other populations.
Australia's rarest reptile found after being considered extinct
By Lily McCure and Andrew Schmidt
Not found anywhere else on Earth, a skink considered functionally extinct has been found in a national park in far west NSW.
#Reptiles #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #NationalParks #RuralandRemoteCommunities #LilyMcCure #AndrewSchmidt
Push to have platypus listed as 'vulnerable' on national register
By Liam O'Connell
A lack of hard data on platypus numbers holds back a Queensland-led effort to list the iconic monotreme as "vulnerable" on the national Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation register.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-15/platypus-marian-vulnerable-conservation-register/106562272
#Animals #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #AnimalBehaviour #LiamOConnell
Matt PalmerSilly mainlanders, shooting endangered wedge tailed eagles one at a time is so inefficient. Down here in Very Smart Tasmania, we log their native forest habitat instead, destroying both the birds *and* their ability to recover in the future. Cheered on, I might add, by all major political parties.
Property owner finds wedge-tailed eagles shot in 'horrific' scene https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/seven-wedge-tailed-eagles-die-after-being-shot-near-wagga-wagga/105150464 #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #AnimalCruelty #Animals #Birds
NewsBot 1000More than 1,600 seals found dead along Russian coastline https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-05/russia-seal-death-caspian-sea/101732642 #news #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #AnimalsandNature #Environment
Big floods rejuvenate our landscape, but they also have a 'sting in the tail' for nature https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-03/floods-impact-on-nature-some-animals-thrive-others-starve/101705264 #news #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #EnvironmentalPolicy #EnvironmentalImpact #IndigenousCulture #ClimateChange #Floods
Floods rejuvenate Australia's environment, yet have 'sting in the tail' for many species
Floods are critically important for many plant and animal species, but scientists fear back-to-back extremes of flood, fire and drought are causing significant environmental damage — and say we don't know the full picture.
Golden bandicoots 'breeding rapidly' in NSW outback 100 years after becoming locally extinct https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-02/golden-bandicoots-locally-extinct-reproducing-western-nsw/101720372 #news #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #AnimalsandNature
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