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Australian Reptile Park manager Billy Collett with a freshwater crocodile captured at Wallsend on Sunday, March 1, 2026.

‘Don’t belong here’: Croc captured in Newcastle park

Wildlife carers are working to find a permanent home for the reptile abandoned in a suburban waterway.

  • Jack Gramenz

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Camera traps were set up outside Uganda's "Python Cave".
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Bat cave footage shows disease spread risk for first time

Camera traps were set up outside Uganda's "Python Cave".

Fire ants were first recorded at the Port of Brisbane in 2001.

Fire ant eradication attempts may be helping the invaders, study finds

Mass pesticides could be killing the ants’ predators and wasting millions of dollars, according to a new study on the contentious national program.

  • Julius Dennis
Rabbit populations are booming in rural and urban areas.

‘Complacency crept in’: Australia defenceless against feral rabbit boom

Lack of research and development funding has left Australia without its key weapon against exponential growth of one of the most devastating pests.

  • Mike Foley
Kylie Conroy has been moving the unwell birds into her backyard.

Kylie’s yard is usually full of magpies. Now they’re dying, and she wants answers

In the last two weeks, Kylie Conroy has counted more than 30 birds that have died in her Inala backyard or been taken to the RSPCA wildlife hospital.

  • Julius Dennis
Stumps left behind after massive trees were removed from Mounts Bay Road in Perth’s CBD following an infestation by the polyphagous shot-hole borer.

New Perth quarantine zones quietly adopted as shot-hole borer march advances into hills

The state has binned its old A and B quarantine zones in place for the past two years.

  • Hamish Hastie
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BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - 2021/09/19: Cane Toad (Rhinella marina) in a shallow pond in boondall wetlands. (Photo by Joshua Prieto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

One of Australia’s worst pests is on the march to the Pilbara. But we have a ‘unique’ chance to stop them

A new study predicts that without containment efforts, cane toads will infest up to 75 per cent of the Pilbara within three decades.

  • Holly Thompson
Bird flu can spread quickly between species, which is a risk for the wildlife in Antarctica such as these penguins and skuas.

Could we vaccinate wild populations against the looming bird flu catastrophe?

The deadly H5N1 bird flu has spread across much of the world, killing millions of birds and tens of thousands of mammals. How will Australia respond?

  • Bianca Hall
US President Donald Trump has declared he will use Australia’s decision to allow in North American beef to pressure other countries.

Government ‘won’t give up’ on US tariff reprieve after Trump celebrates end of beef ban

The Albanese government has insisted the move has nothing to do with trade talks with the US but the White House has vowed to use it to pressure other countries.

  • Nick Newling and Matthew Knott
Does Anthony Albanese (right) really want to follow Donald Trump’s lead on defence spending?

Pistol and Boo should have disguised themselves as (maybe mad) cows

Australia’s strict quarantine authorities famously booted out the movie star dogs. A few years later they are overturning a ban on US beef. We’re truly living in Trumpworld now.

  • Tony Wright