Holiday horror as a toddler is attacked by a dingo while his family were camping in a national park

Holiday horror as a toddler is attacked by a dingo while his family were camping in a national park

Parks and wildlife rangers have launched an urgent hunt to track down a dingo that attacked a two-year-old boy, leaving him with serious injuries. The toddler was attacked by the wild dog at Dales Campground in Karijini National Park, outback Western Australia on Friday night. He was rushed to Tom Price hospital with ‘serious but […]

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Discover the Wildlife in Your Backyard with the WildTracker Project

Discover the Wildlife in Your Backyard with the WildTracker Project

Have you ever wondered what creatures share your backyard? Meet the Marshall family from Tinderbox, south of Hobart, Australia, who recently embarked on an exciting journey to find out what animals live on their property. Thanks to the Tasmanian Land Conservancy’s WildTracker project, a citizen science program, the family is discovering the fascinating array of […]

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Australia’s rarest bird of prey disappearing at alarming rate

Australia’s rarest bird of prey disappearing at alarming rate

Australia’s rarest bird of prey—the red goshawk—is facing extinction, with Cape York Peninsula now the only place in Queensland known to support breeding populations. Ph.D. candidate Chris MacColl from The University of Queensland’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences led the research project that made the discovery and was shocked by the hawk’s dwindling numbers. […]

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Dying for sex: endangered male quolls may be mating themselves to death instead of sleeping, scientists say

Dying for sex: endangered male quolls may be mating themselves to death instead of sleeping, scientists say

Male northern quolls seem to sacrifice sleep in favour of having sex, behaviour that might be responsible for their early deaths, suggests new research into the endangered marsupials. Australian scientists have investigated why male northern quolls usually mate themselves to death after one season, while females of the species reproduce once but live up to […]

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Five baby emus are DELIBERATELY run over on a remote dirt road as their owner breaks down in tears over the sickening act of animal cruelty: ‘A massacre’

Five baby emus are DELIBERATELY run over on a remote dirt road as their owner breaks down in tears over the sickening act of animal cruelty: ‘A massacre’

Heartbreaking images of five emu chicks ran over and left for dead on a remote road in a national park have sparked community outrage over what’s been described ‘deliberate act of cruelty’. A quest for answers is underway after the ‘massacred’ chicks were discovered in various states of trauma with horrific injuries across a dead-end […]

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