Endangered and Protected Species

The risks of death or hospitalisation of koalas increases as soon as seven-day average maximum temperature is above 27 degrees Celsius, a new study shows.

The annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations has failed to reach consensus to designate the endangered emperor penguin as a "Specially Protected Species".

There are at least 20 platypuses now living in the NSW Royal National Park's waterways, three years after their historic reintroduction. 

Scientists analysing a database of photos find two humpback whales travelled from Queensland to Brazil, covering a record distance of 14,200km. 

There were no known photographs taken in the wild of the Myrmeleon houstoni until a regional Victorian woman snapped a photo of one while on a bushwalk.

A permit to cull 20,000 native birds has been granted to a cattle station in the Northern Territory in response to an "overpopulation" of destructive and "exceptionally noisy" galahs and little corellas.

More than 800 tiny, technicoloured northern corroboree frogs are released into the wild to try to bolster the numbers of one of Australia's most critically endangered amphibians.

Scientists hope the successful captive breeding and release of the endangered Watson's tree frog in Victoria's far east will help aid the species' survival, after its habitat was decimated during the Black Summer bushfires.

Taxonomists from London's Natural History Museum who named the Chilean species were inspired by the lifework of the famous broadcaster and naturalist.

Hundreds of turtles are thriving near an outback NSW town, only months after the lake where they live was on the verge of drying up.

Activists appealed the local council's approval of the 18-storey resort on the grounds that it would endanger local wildlife. The community fears the court's green light for the development will permanently change their seaside town.

A highly prized, rare ingredient used in the production of luxury perfumes washes up on a Denmark beach — and it comes from the intestine of sperm whales.

Julie Jones has lived by the River Murray all her life and wants all South Australians to participate in the first comprehensive review of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

A leading researcher is calling for the platypus to be recognised as a threatened species in NSW, saying a lack of data is the only reason it has not been reclassified.

Only one known single spyridium plant is left in the wild, in crushed limestone on the side of a road. But scientists are hunting for more.

Trevor Evans has been breeding the endangered mountain pygmy possum to better deal with the effects of climate change. The population at his sanctuary has grown rapidly in the process.

The sound of the night parrot in southwest Queensland which alerted Conservation Partners ecologist Steve Murphy to a second population in the state.

Ecologists say thousands of hours of audio recordings have detected night parrot calls in south-west Queensland.

A small colony of endangered brown bandicoots just south of Adelaide continue to breed as conservationists hope to connect them with other populations.

New research has revealed Darwin Harbour's biodiversity, including its wide range of rare species, rivals that of the World Heritage-protected Ningaloo Reef.