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A New South Wales farmer has placed a third of her property under a conservation covenant in the hope it will increase the value of the farm and its produce.
Topics: sustainable-and-alternative-farming, rural, conservation, environment, endangered-and-protected-species, nsw, australia
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Flying fox rescuers in Sydney are experiencing their "worst season ever" as a record number get tangled in backyard tree nets as they search for food and try and escape the heat.
Topics: animals, weather, endangered-and-protected-species, sydney-2000
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The hunt is on for a new home for the world's rarest marsupial, the Gilbert's potoroo, off Western Australia's south coast.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, conservation, environment, albany-6330
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Rare and endangered northern bettongs have been found in far north Queensland in an area where the animal was thought to have died out, environmental group WWF says.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, environmental-management, charities-and-community-organisations, university-and-further-education, cairns-4870
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A rise in koala sightings in the New South Wales central tablelands is leading to hopes the region could be instrumental in the fight to save the species.
Topics: conservation, animals, endangered-and-protected-species, bathurst-2795, rockley-2795, perthville-2795
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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| UpdatedCute, cuddly Australian native animals are much loved across the globe, but their private mating behaviours can be extremely wild.
Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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| UpdatedA male koala makes a distinctive bellowing mating calls to a group of females which screech in return.
Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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| UpdatedAn environmental group is warning water quality in Macquarie Harbour is threatening the survival of an ancient skate species.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, fishing-aquaculture, environmental-management, environmental-impact, strahan-7468
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Bycatch from shark nets almost doubles in the second month of trials, with dolphins, turtles and rays caught and killed.
Topics: shark, endangered-and-protected-species, marine-biology, marine-parks, ballina-2478, evans-head-2473, lismore-2480
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Environmentalists step up their campaign against the harvesting of timber in north-west Tasmania over fears logging will threaten the giant freshwater crayfish population.
Topics: environmental-impact, forestry, endangered-and-protected-species, tas, hobart-7000, smithton-7330
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| UpdatedThese birds are on the brink of extinction, but Australian researchers are heading up an international group including Japan, China, Russia and South Korea working together to save the special shorebirds.
Topics: birds, endangered-and-protected-species, darwin-0800
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A one-week-old orange-bellied parrot chick, named Matilda, with its mother.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, birds, conservation, tas
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| UpdatedA captive-bred orange-bellied parrot chick survives its first week with an adoptive mother in the wild, in a world-first trial of fostering as a strategy to boost the endangered species in the wild. But there are no guarantees of success.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, science-and-technology, birds, animal-science, environment, tas, australia
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| UpdatedA common bacteria kills up to 16 critically endangered orange-bellied parrots at a captive breeding centre in Hobart, in what the environment department labels "a heartbreaking start to the new year".
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, conservation, tas, taroona-7053
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Vietnam's wildlife trade is no longer on public display, but customers can still arrange "travel guides" who make the necessary introductions, and then shepherd them safely back over the border with their booty, or order deliveries through Facebook.
Topics: environment, endangered-and-protected-species, law-crime-and-justice, vietnam
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| UpdatedCalifornia loses one of its biggest icons, after the ancient Pioneer Cabin Tree, also known as the "tunnel tree", crashes to the forest floor in a fierce storm.
Topics: environmental-health, environmental-impact, endangered-and-protected-species, human-interest, united-states
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| UpdatedMax Mason wakes to a now familiar "cold, slithering feeling" as a carpet python, which visited earlier this week, crawls across his neck as he lie in bed at home in the Brisbane suburb of Ascot.
Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, brisbane-4000
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A national study finds feral cats are threatening our native wildlife more than ever and pest-free islands are providing rare sanctuaries.
Topics: pests, endangered-and-protected-species, conservation, pest-management, environmental-management, mammals, animals, perth-6000, exmouth-6707
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In this clip from the ABC program 'In the Wild with Harry Butler', Butler talks about fears the parrot had become extinct in the late 70s.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, birds, australia, qld
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| UpdatedScientists discover endangered night parrots leave the safety of their hideouts to drink at waterholes when the night-time temperature hits 40 degrees Celsius, in a breakthrough which could help save them from extinction.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, environment, conservation, animal-welfare, animal-science, longreach-4730, qld, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810