Opportunistic whales have forced researchers to reconsider whether long-line fishing in Australia's southern waters is as eco-friendly as first thought.

Numbers of migrating birds travelling from the Arctic to Botany Bay are dwindling.

Taronga Zoo opens Squirrel Monkey Jungle Walk

The tallest species on the planet is much rarer than previously understood.

Venom from two iconic Australian species could be behind the development of new treatments for diabetes, which affects around 1.7 million Australians.

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The baby pygmy marmoset stolen from a Helensburgh wildlife park has been found, but Gomez and Sophia are still missing.

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The baby pygmy marmoset stolen from a Helensburgh wildlife park has been found, but Gomez and Sophia are still missing.

Pauline Hanson is copping flak for taking her senators to a healthy part of the Great Barrier Reef in an effort to disprove claims the icon is dying.

The skeleton of a dodo has been sold at auction to a private collector for £280,000 ($560,000).

Like the thousands of waterbirds he tracks every year, Professor Richard Kingsford migrates annually to NSW's Macquarie Marshes to witness a "great sight of nature: tens of thousands of waterbirds breeding in wetlands".

A man has attempted to throw a net over Premier Mike Baird as tensions boiled over in Ballina after the installation of the first shark nets in the region.

Alison McKenzie, the wife of a slain environmental investigator Glen Turner, says she is worried the Baird government's new land-clearing laws won't resolve the circumstances that led to his death.

Frog calls that greeted researchers after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires were robust in number. But genetic testing has revealed they are alarmingly limited in diversity, catching researchers on the hop.

A pregnant Baw Baw frog, found high on a muddy mountaintop could be the key to a successful captive breeding program for the seriously endangered animal.

The Baird government is on the cusp of "gutting" environment protection in the state, opponents say.

Divisions within the Baird government over its controversial native vegetation reforms are emerging, with a Liberal MP Bruce Notley-Smith warning they could trigger "further irreversible land degradation".

Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo has trumpeted its credentials as a conservation centre by announcing the birth of its first Asian elephant calf.

Baird government's decision to back a trial of shark nets "not based on data".

A potentially dangerous incident involving an escaped gorilla has ``concluded'' at the London Zoo, police say.

Study finds proposed loosening of NSW's land clearing controls expose much of the state's woodlands bulldozers.

National Geographic Magazine photographer Thomas Peschak specialises in cute, beautiful and arresting images of marine wildlife around the planet.

Western Australia is home to the only place on Earth where our ancient history could one day help us find life on other planets.

The United Nations has called for the shutdown of all legal domestic ivory markets as it looks to combat poaching and put pressure on countries that continue to trade in elephant tusks.

South Africa's Kruger National Park is littered in places with the trunks of trees uprooted and stripped of bark by a surging population of elephants, a frequent sight in the reserve.

The first ever comprehensive study into the sale of ivory and rhino horn in Australian and New Zealand auction houses has found trade of the product still takes place.

Zoological Society alarmed by new bill that abandons protection for three-quarters of native animals.

* Pangolins regarded as most poached animal on the planet

Animal rights activists have called for an investigation after one of two lions which escaped from their cage at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany was shot dead.

More polar bears are being shot dead on Norway's remote Arctic islands, where dangerous encounters with humans are getting more frequent as visitors increase and global warming melts the sea ice on which the creatures roam.