Wildlife rangers will Wednesday begin shooting 90 dolphins stranded on a remote Australian beach, saying the stressed creatures would be euthanised after attempts to refloat them failed. A pod of 157 dolphins from a poorly understood deep-sea species was found stranded Tuesday evening on an isolated beach in Australia‘s southern island of Tasmania. Tasmania’s environment […]
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First Sighting of Critically Endangered Plains-Wanderer in Australia in More Than 3 Decades
The first sighting of the critically endangered Plains-wanderer in Australia in more than three decades was detected by Zoos Victoria in two areas of remnant grassland west of Melbourne, reported The Guardian. Evolutionarily speaking, Plains-wanderers are unique. As the only member of the Pedionomidae family, there is no other bird like it on Earth. “They’re […]
The number of venomous snakes removed from this Australian yard will make you shudder
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – A man described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney backyard. David Stein called Reptile Relocation Sydney last week after watching around six snakes slither into the mulch. He learned from an internet search that pregnant, known […]
Carnivorous marsupials, cryptic birds and feral cats: wildlife cameras capture life on a Queensland cattle station
Frame by frame, the wildlife living on a Queensland cattle station are revealed. A long-eared bilby is caught mid-hop on a gibber plain, the name given to the densely packed rocks of the desert pavement. The eyes of an endangered kowari – a palm-sized carnivorous marsupial with a bottle-brush tail – glow an eerie white. […]
Toddler is savagely mauled by a dingo on K’gari in second attack in THIRD attack within days
A two-year-old has been bitten by a dingo at a popular tourist destination – the third attack within three days. The dingo bit the child on the leg at Lake McKenzie (Boorangaroo) at K’gari, formerly Fraser Island off the Queensland coast just before 1pm on Sunday. The dingo encountered the child in the car park. […]
Shocking video shows man lifting swan by legs in disturbing Australia Day incident in Mandurah Estuary
Shocking footage has surfaced showing a man lifting a swan from the water and raising it over his head in a disturbing Australia Day act in Western Australia. The video, shared on social media, showed the man diving into the Mandurah Estuary from a boat, before he grabbed the black swan by the legs. The […]
Mystery syndrome killing rainbow lorikeets and flying foxes leaves scientists baffled
Thousands of rainbow lorikeets and hundreds of flying foxes have been hospitalised in Queensland in the past year with a mysterious paralysis that can affect the animals’ ability to fly, swallow and even breathe. Lorikeet paralysis syndrome has struck birds in Queensland and New South Wales since at least 2012, and a similar syndrome was […]
Calls to halt kangaroo culling in Victoria’s Grampians after bushfires
Wildlife advocates are calling for a halt to the commercial harvesting of kangaroos in Victoria’s Grampians region after bushfires there. Wildlife Victoria warned of “long-term impacts” on native plants and animals due to the fires, which burned through 76,000 hectares of national park and farmland, and called for a stop to the controversial practice until […]