Conservation

In six months, Emma Sinclair went from not knowing how to sew to launching her own fashion label based around fox fur.

Key wildlife links between two of Sydney's major rivers are under threat from land clearing for housing, according to a koala conservation group.

Taronga Zoo has successfully bred native Australian animals for years — but it now has a vision on how to re-establish their populations.

Queensland producers say a blanket approach to environmental laws will restrict their ability to manage land sustainably and responsibly.

Researchers in Victoria are using taste aversion conditioning to stop foxes eating native turtle eggs.

Golf courses around the world feature picturesque water ponds as a challenging hazard for players to avoid, but scientists are diving right in. They say golf club wetlands are an ecological safe haven to repopulate threatened native fish.

The Queensland government's purchase of Vergemont Station last year led to months of uncertainty for miners with tenures inside the former cattle station, which is larger than the Australian Capital Territory.

The Gold Coast's long-running cableway proposal has inched forward after councillors redirected funds from First Nations consultation to environmental studies.

Lyn Alcock is known as the 'Numbat whisperer', spending hours every day observing and photographing the tiny, endangered marsupials, recording behaviours that have never been seen before. 

Australia is the land of the parrot — few places in the world have such a dazzling array of colourful and clever members of the psittacine family.

One of a handful of Rosenberg’s goannas living in the ACT’s hill reserves has once again wandered off, prompting calls from a local conservation organisation for help bringing him back.

Changes set to take effect on January 1 will include annual park passes jumping to $US250 for foreign tourists, while US residents will continue to be charged $US80, according to authorities.  

A team of researchers describe the "magical" experience of finding a rare species of flower in bloom deep in the Sumatran rainforest after a 23-hour trek.

The parma wallaby was thought to be extinct until Peter Pigott followed up on a rumour that a 19th century governor took a bunch of the mammals to New Zealand proved to be true.

Australian cemeteries have become a safe haven for flora and fauna affected by urban expansion, including a rare orchid unique to a small patch of the NSW Mid North Coast.

Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.

A Great Koala National Park is being established on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. The timber industry is reeling as trees within the proposed boundary are now off limits.

Twenty endangered bandicoots are roaming south-west New South Wales in an effort to return bandicoots to the region after several species were wiped out in the late 1800s.

A date is set for snorkellers to return Ewens Ponds on South Australia's Limestone Coast, after low water flows caused its closure to the public.

A Victorian medical charity helps divert 15,000 tonnes of medical waste from landfill while giving wildlife carers the resources to nurse injured animals back to health.