Conservation
Five cheetahs born in rare caesarean at US zoo
Five cheetah cubs are getting around-the-clock care after being delivered in a rare caesarean section at a US zoo.
Save the trees: skip the soy, make-up and macaroni
Allie Goldstein Choosing products that have not contributed to deforestation is difficult, but every little bit helps.
ANU students arrested in mine protest
Katie Burgess Four ANU students arrested after they blocked a coal train from leaving a controversial new mine.
Mountain lion suspected of killing koala at Los Angeles Zoo
Joseph Serna, Hailey Branson-Potts In the legal world, it'd be called circumstantial evidence.
'Ghostlike' octopus found in Pacific may belong to new species
Frank McGurty An underwater research craft has spotted a "ghostlike" octopus that appears to belong to a previously unknown species.
Record season for captive-bred weedy sea dragons
Bridie Smith The next generation of weedy sea dragons have hatched at the Melbourne aquarium.
Bear, lion and tiger inseparable after sharing traumatic past
Helena Horton The animal sancturary where they live calls them the 'BLT'. They are best friends after being set free from a drug dealer's basement 15 years ago
'We will not stand by and watch this mine destroy our village'
Peter Hannam The town of Bulga is fighting to the last, setting back Rio Tinto's hopes for a quick sale of its Mt Thorley Warkworth coal mine.
Canadian man tries to smuggle 38 turtles in his pants
Ethan Lou A Canadian man who smuggled 38 turtles in his pants has been fined, banned from owning such reptiles for a while and told to write about it.
'Extinct' eastern quoll - an exciting discovery
Kim Arlington Hope springs for survival of "cutest animal" in mainland Australia.
Trees add value to country properties, study finds
Darren Gray Landholders were willing to pay more for land in central Victoria with some native woody vegetation on it.
Shark gets up close and personal with fishermen
A group of friends gathering fishing bait in New Zealand have had a rare, hands-on encounter with a great white shark.
Town won't go cold turkey even as wild birds terrorise residents
Lisa W. Foderaro In some neighbourhoods of Hillsdale, a placid borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, they are seemingly everywhere - waddling by the dozen in the road, perched on car roofs, pecking at the tyres of delivery trucks.
Skier photographs rare snow leopard on Indian mountainside
Megan Levy An Australian skier captured on camera the "amazing" moment an endangered snow leopard leapt across his path on a mountainside in India.
Australian tip-off leads to online wildlife trafficking sting in Indonesia
Jewel Topsfield A tip-off from the Australian Federal Police led to a sting that nabbed two Indonesians who had smuggled Papuan reptiles to Australia in an international online wildlife trafficking operation.
New spider species named after Johnny Cash
It is big, hairy, and if one sinks its fangs in you it will burn, burn, burn like a ring of fire.
Five-metre great white shark filmed off NSW coast
Footage has emerged of a five-metre-plus great white shark swimming around game fishing boats off Narooma on the NSW Far South Coast.
Meerkat pups stand up for their species
Taronga's newest babies are only a month old, but they're already practising to be sentries, trying to stand up on their hind legs.
First tuatara reptile hatched outside New Zealand in decades
The first tuatara reptile to be bred outside its native New Zealand in decades has been born in an English zoo.
Snow leopard DNA found in Chinese medicine sold in Australia
Chinese medicine purchased over the counter in Australia has been found to contain the DNA of endangered species.
'The early bird catches the worm' gets a new twist with climate change
Peter Hannam Most birds lay just one egg a day, a process that is likely to be affected by a warming world, new research has found.
Experiment has zoo's orang-utans seeing red
Bridie Smith It could have gone either way on Monday morning. The primates in the novel experiment could have gone ape - or they could have responded with indifference.
Fishermen go to ground after massive tiger shark catch
Dan Proudman It was a potential world record catch, but silence has surrounded the fishermen who landed the massive shark.
Tiger quoll trashes NSW couple's bathroom
Sam Norris "What are you and what are you doing in my house?"
Rare white giraffe seen in Tanzania could be target for poachers
Mark Molloy A rare white giraffe with a genetic condition which means many of her body surface cells are incapable of making pigment has been photographed at a national park in Tanzania.
Sri Lanka destroys illegal elephant tusks
Dharisha Bastians and Geeta Anand A group of saffron-robed monks chanted as officials crushed more than 300 elephant tusks on Tuesday, as Sri Lanka's new government tried to send Asia a powerful message of intolerance for elephant poaching.
Bob Brown arrested at anti-logging protest in Tasmania
Former Greens leader has been released on bail after being arrested during a community protest over logging in northwest Tasmania.
Stepping stones in the bush: from coal mining to landscape restoration
Peter Hannam Andrew Shaw says he is "not a quintessential farmer". A more accurate view might be that you won't find many coal mine workers like him in the Hunter Valley.
The creatures that came in from the cold
Researchers have successfully revived microscopic creatures that had been kept frozen for 30 years.
Wedge-tailed eagle spreads his wings
Sydney Pead The eagle has landed ... but what happens when it won't take off again?
