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White-fronted geese take off from the Miyajimanuma wetland in Bibai, Hokkaido, on Wednesday. Surrounded by rice paddies that provide a rich source of food, Miyajimanuma is a stopover point on the birds' migration route from Russia's Far East. According to the Miyajimanuma Waterbird and Wetlands Center, the number of migratory…

Mairi Hilton will live and work on Port Lockroy base on Goudier Island, taking up a role as a wildlife monitor, one of the most remote jobs in the world, spending five months without running water or a flushing toilet.

“We don’t want to encourage it, but we’re not going to discourage it either.”

Despite centuries of myths, the European earwig does not burrow into brains

Chiriquí harlequin frogs went extinct in 1996 due to a fungal disease that has driven the decline of 501 amphibian species

Australia’s dire and shameful conservation record is well established. The world’s highest number of recent mammal extinctions – 39 since colonisation. Ecosystems collapsing from the north to the south, across our lands and waters. Even species that have survived so far are at risk, as the sad list of threatened…

The sighting of a pod of normally elusive orcas during a whale-watching tour on the New South Wales Mid North Coast has thrilled tourists and excited conservationists.

A roadmap has been released to improve outcomes of threatened species over the next 10 years, replacing a plan released by the former government in 2021.

A top hospital physician on Tuesday advised people not to step inside tree hollows in their quests to observe lesser false vampire bats due to the risk of exposure to dangerous fungus spores.