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How to conserve your dragon – and avoid losing Australia’s most imperilled reptile for a second time

Melbourne zoo’s new breeding centre hopes to safeguard the future of the critically endangered Victorian grassland earless dragon

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When feral cats are away, potoroos and bandicoots are more likely to play

All animals need to eat to survive, grow and reproduce. To do so, they also need to avoid being eaten. This is a big challenge for many of Australia’s native mammals, because when they search for food, they must also escape the attention of introduced predators, namely, feral cats and…

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From cigarette-smoking orangutans to lavender for lions: Melbourne zoo’s dark history gives way to progressive animal care

Tackling the tension between promoting conservation, keeping animals in captivity and its heavy history, the zoo has been reshaped around environmental awareness

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‘Only if we help shall all be saved’: Jane Goodall showed we can all be part of the solution

With the passing of Dr Jane Goodall, the world has lost a conservation giant. But her extraordinary achievements leave a profound legacy.

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Hopes high as hundreds of critically endangered frogs survive release into wild in Victoria

More than 600 captive-bred spotted tree frogs have joined the dwindling wild population near Mount Beauty – and so far more than half have been found again

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Decades of searching and a chance discovery: why finding Leadbeater’s possum in NSW is such big news

Until now, Victorians believed their state was the sole home for Leadbeater’s possum, their critically endangered state faunal emblem. This tiny marsupial is clinging to life in a few pockets of mountain ash and snow gum habitat in the Central Highlands of Victoria.

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Massive swarms of bogong moths once resembled rain clouds – then their numbers crashed to earth

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems

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Doggy delight: wildlife detectors sniff out rare dragon

A team of wildlife detection dogs have been trained to sniff out a rare species of lizard, which was long thought to be extinct until its rediscovery.

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Earless dragons were presumed extinct in Australia – now Daisy and Kip have sniffed out 13 of them

Zoos Victoria wildlife detection dogs uncovered the ‘bloody gorgeous’ reptiles in return for treats and cuddles

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‘You just hope for the best’: rarely seen froglets – the length of a grain of rice – released into small patch of Victorian wilds

Exclusive: More than 3,000 critically endangered Baw Baw frogs set free in a high-altitude forest to bolster dwindling population

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Melbourne zoo investigating shock death of Kimya the western lowland gorilla

Vets are undertaking a necropsy to determine why beloved 20-year-old animal suddenly died on Saturday morning

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‘Like finding gold’: plains-wanderers spotted in Melbourne’s west for first time in 30 years with help of AI

Critically endangered bird detected after analysis of tens of thousands of hours of song meter recordings

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In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world

It’s just past midnight in the cool, ancient forests of Tasmania. We’ve spent a long day and night surveying endangered Tasmanian devils. All around, small animals scurry through bushes. A devil calls in the darkness. Microbats swoop and swirl as a spotted-tailed quoll slips through the shadows. Working here is…

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Banking on seeds to help save endangered possum

More than 60 years after the rediscovery of a rare possum in Victoria, scientists are looking ahead to save the tiny population that remains in the wild.

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Protecting private land to save the plains-wanderer, a bird ‘teetering on the edge of extinction’

With an estimated wild population of just 250, they may be Australia’s rarest bird and most of their remaining habitat is on farmland

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Disease threat emerges for critically endangered parrot

With just 70 orange-bellied parrots left in the wild, a new invisible threat is worrying experts over the future of the species.

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From beloved pet to biodiversity villain: what now for Australia’s cats?

Our feline friends kill more than 300 million native animals a year. Can we keep them and protect our wildlife too?

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Zebra and fish deaths highlight perils for zoo animals

The death of a zebra apparently spooked while being moved in a shipping crate highlights the risk of transferring the animals, a major zoo operator says.

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Victoria has rediscovered a dragon – how do we secure its future?

The Victorian grassland earless dragon (Tympanocryptis pinguicolla), not seen since 1969, has been found in grasslands west of Melbourne. No need to fear this dragon, though; these lizards are just 15cm long fully grown.

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Australian earless dragon last seen in 1969 rediscovered in secret location

Victorian grassland earless dragon was once common west of Melbourne but numbers declined due to habitat loss and predators such as feral cats

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Polly wants a tracker! Tiny radios helping to revive endangered orange-belly parrot population

Endangered orange-bellied parrots fitted with tiny radio transmitters have taken to the skies in an Australia for the first time

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Drought decimated bogong moth numbers. Now flooding rains are bringing them back to the Australian Alps

They weigh "less than a Tic Tac", yet bogong moths manage to migrate 1,000 kilometres in their billions each year. Scientists are concerned weather extremes may be their undoing.

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Animals bred in captivity develop physical changes that may hinder survival in the wild, research finds

Captive-breeding programs lead to shorter wing spans in birds and behavioural changes that leave animals more vulnerable to predators, global study finds

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You don't have to be a cute koala to be an Instagram influencer. Give lizards and bugs a chance and we'll like them too

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RSPCA Vic and Zoos Vic Koala Ward opening

A new koala hospital has opened at Werribee Open Range Zoo, funded by donations to the RSPCA and Zoos Victoria following the Black Summer bushfire crisis

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