Five Australian mammals declared extinct after failed search

Five Australian marsupials have been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).The ...
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Taronga Zoo to 'rewild' cleared farmland in northern NSW with native Australian animals

A huge piece of land in northern NSW will be transformed into a safe haven for endangered native animals including koalas, platypus, spotted quolls and regent honeyeater birds bred at Taronga Zoo. The ...
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Australia has more native bird species than almost anywhere else. What led to this explosion of diversity?

When you went out today, did you see any birds? A galah perhaps, or a crow? If you did, there's a decent chance the bird you saw lives nowhere but Australia. Out of about 850 species found in ...

Deadly bird flu puts 100 species of Australia’s ‘isolated’ wildlife at risk of mass deaths

Around 100 species of native wildlife are on a list of species under significant threat from the deadly strain of bird flu that arrived in Australia for the time last week.