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Remember carp herpes? Or "caaaaarp herpes" as Barnaby Joyce put it back in 2016? It was meant to rid our waterways of the "disgusting, mud-sucking creatures". So what happened?

Lolita the Orca was captured by explosive wielding hunters who drove her pod into a bay before the four-year-old killer whale was seized. From there she was dumped in a tiny tank with another killy whale who later killed himself, experts say

The orca is widely known from the 2013 documentary Blackfish

Magheralin, County Down: The parishioners here have been busy, their environmental endeavours a direct expression of pastoral care

The Miami Seaquarium is returning Lolita to its home waters in the Pacific Northwest

A technical working group is being established by the Northern Territory government to assess the impacts of buffel grass and explore how it is to be managed in Central Australia.

A group of Queensland residents is calling for more dog exclusion zones on beaches after watching pet owners let their canines run free at an important shorebird nesting site.

"Things are at an early stage and patience is needed, but we all have our fingers crossed for a successful reintroduction" - Malcolm Noonan

A beaver who was found by a Perthshire roadside with a gunshot wound to his face has been released back into the wild after recovering from his "appalling" injuries.

‘Many of our animals use the productive continental shelf waters around the Outer Banks, NC as a spring staging area before making their migration north,’ nonprofit says

When it was introduced to Europe in the mid-19th century as an ornamental plant, Japanese knotweed, known as Reynoutria japonica var japonica, quickly went rogue. Despite not being native to the British Isles, it was able to rapidly form self-sustaining colonies in the wild.