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Australia’s land-use squeeze

By Rhett Ayers Butler Mongabay recently launched the Australian Biodiversity Special Reporting Project, which will produce ...
Mongabay

An Australian state promised to turn native forest into a national koala park. It’s still being logged

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Labor Party of Australia’s New South Wales state made a 2023 campaign promise to establish a Great Koala National Park to protect the iconic ...

Australian freshwater fish like to dine out, relying on land-based food sources

New research has found that roughly half of Australia's freshwater fish are fond of snacking on animal and plant material, including fruits, from outside their aquatic habitats.
The Conversation

I discovered a new Australian native bee, but there are still hundreds we need to identify

Kit Prendergast received funding from the Atlas of Living Australia, with a Biodiversity Mobilisation Grant and Goldfields Environmental Management Group Grant. The surveys were conducted as an ...
Phys.org

Native pollinators need more support than honeybees in Australia—here's why

Late last year, the New South Wales government announced an additional A$9.5 million in funding to support honeybee keepers in the wake of the 2022 arrival and subsequent spread of the Varroa mite.