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Australian scientists trying to work out why bats do not succumb to the dangerous bugs they carry can now predict an outbreak of the deadly Hendra virus well before it may occur.

Steven Guilbeault wants to block logging of critical old-growth forest to prevent owls from going extinct in British Columbia

Several wildlife species have recovered to the point where they no longer should be considered threatened, researchers find, but they warn many more are under threat from habitat destruction and climate change.

The duck hunting season for 2023 will be shorter, with smaller bag limits, prompting opposition criticism that the government is doing a "stealth" shutdown.

Queensland wildlife officers killed the reptile about 200 metres from the boat ramp where the incident took place.

A huge crocodile deemed an "unacceptable risk" after attacking a man and killing his dog has been shot dead by rangers in Queensland.

Shane Cooper owns a property in one of the last remaining habitat areas of Booroolong frogs. For the past decade he and his wife have been restoring creeks to give the endangered species a chance to recover.

More than four years after the Queensland's Environment Department was found to have no plan to protect threatened species, the agency is still lagging behind, according to the state's auditor-general.

It was April in 1981 when a party of four camped for two days and nights on the forested slopes of Mount Evermann, the central peak of Socorro, a volcanic island in the Pacific some 400 kilometres southwest of Baja California, Mexico. Their fruitless search confirmed their suspicions: the Socorro…