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Baby bats are dropping from trees, abandoned by their mothers and unable to find food for themselves.
Topics: animals, environment, nowra-2541
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Topics: animals, nowra-2541
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Topics: animals, nowra-2541
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Tadpoles are transforming into frogs in classrooms across Canberra, much to the delight of students and teachers alike.
Topics: conservation, primary-schools, public-schools, animal-science, amphibians, environment, endangered-and-protected-species, animals, act, canberra-2600, weetangera-2614
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The rainbow lorikeet, noisy miner and Australian magpie top the national tally for the third straight year as the country's most common birds.
Topics: birds, animal-science, environment, water, animals, gardening, australia, sydney-2000
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The New South Wales Government's proposed changes to its koala protection policy may put the vulnerable species closer to extinction, conservationists fear, but the Government says they are improving protections.
Topics: state-parliament, animal-welfare, animals, nsw
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Topics: animals, lifestyle-and-leisure, byron-bay-2481
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Topics: animals, lifestyle-and-leisure, byron-bay-2481
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Topics: human-interest, animals, byron-bay-2481
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Animal activist Karen Justice, Australian Pet Welfare Foundation chief scientist Jacquie Rand and Real Estate Institute of New South Wales deputy president Brett Hunter, speak about a push to make Byron Bay Australia's first town with all pet-friendly rental accommodation.
Topics: animals, lifestyle-and-leisure, byron-bay-2481, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAnimal activists are campaigning to make Byron Bay Australia's first town offering pet-friendly accommodation for all renters.
Topics: housing, lifestyle-and-leisure, lifestyle, house-and-home, animals, animal-welfare, human-interest, community-and-society, tourism, travel-and-tourism, byron-bay-2481
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Perth Zoo is preparing to release 19 numbats into the wild in an attempt to secure the future of the species, which is under threat from foxes and feral cats.
Topics: animals, conservation, perth-6000
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Two women who established a working dog rescue service just over a year ago have since saved 527 abandoned working dogs and puppies.
Topics: livestock, animals, deniliquin-2710
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A Goulburn man avoids jail after decomposing sheep are found on his property in what the RSPCA described as "like a killing field".
Topics: animals, animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, livestock, rural, animal-nutrition, goulburn-2580, nsw, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Nine-year-old South African boy, Hunter Mitchell, has received an award from the Steve Irwin Foundation for his fundraising efforts to save a rhino calf that was separated from its mother.
Topics: conservation, environment, animals, south-africa
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Topics: animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, livestock, rural, animals, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Topics: animals, animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, animal-nutrition, livestock, courts-and-trials, goulburn-2580, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedFootage released by the RSPCA shows inspectors finding the sole surviving cat out of 14 that were locked in a house until they apparently ate each other.
Topics: animal-welfare, animals, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThere are fears for the survival of one of the last remaining koala colonies on the Tweed Coast after a bushfire ripped through part of the Cudgen Nature Reserve near Cabarita.
Topics: bushfire, endangered-and-protected-species, environment, environmental-impact, animals, cabarita-2137, bogangar-2488
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Queensland is home to animals that breathe from their bum, have false heads and can disguise themselves as leaves. And now you can see them all at the Queensland Museum.
Topics: animals, environmental-impact, library-museum-and-gallery, animal-science, brisbane-4000
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Gympie couple Jaimie and Debra Cook plan to open Australia's first museum dedicated to modern animal bones.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, animals, gympie-4570
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Topics: bones-and-muscles, animals, library-museum-and-gallery
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Topics: animals, bones-and-muscles, library-museum-and-gallery, gympie-4570
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| UpdatedA 95 per cent complete dodo skeleton sells at auction in Britain to a private collector for nearly half-a-million dollars.
Topics: animals, conservation, united-kingdom
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Topics: animals, united-kingdom