
Monarto Safari Park welcomes new rhino calf
A Southern White rhinoceros calf has been born at Monarto Safari Park.
A Southern White rhinoceros calf has been born at Monarto Safari Park.
The future of the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart is even more precarious after last summer’s devastating bushfires. Their survival now may depend on controlling the growing feral cat population, argue Rosemary Hohnen and Sarah Legge.
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A parasite killing Darwin’s finches on the famed Galápagos Islands is causing a dramatic escalation in survival-of-the-fittest behaviour once described by evolutionist Charles Darwin, new research has revealed.
European settlement of Australia, and the exotic predators and herbivores they brought with them, caused rapid widespread biodiversity loss. As a result, for the past 200 years Australia has had the highest mammal extinction rate in the world.