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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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Landmark rediscovery of endangered native rodent at Victoria's Wilsons Promontory

A team of scientists finds the broad-toothed rat, or Tooarrana, scurrying around the Wilsons Promontory for the first time in 32 years.

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Taronga and Melbourne zoos move to protect animals from foot-and-mouth disease

New biosecurity measures include suspension of walkthroughs in some enclosures and a request that recent travellers to Indonesia wait 48 hours before visiting

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Foot-and-mouth disease threat prompts Melbourne Zoo to restrict access to elephants, giraffes and kangaroos

Contact with animals like giraffes, elephants and kangaroos will be limited at zoos in Victoria as concern about a potential foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Australia continue to rise.

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Pookila mouse breeding program begins after drought, land clearing and predators take a toll

With fewer than 3,000 Pookila mice left in the wild in Victoria, scientists are pairing genetically diverse animals together in the hope of turning the endangered rodents' fortunes around.

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Tiny arrivals at Guthega skink chalet a big moment in alpine critter's fight back from the brink of extinction

A "special moment" millions of years in the making could be a critical point in a rescue breeding program for the Guthega skink, which is barely hanging on in its alpine homelands.

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‘We can’t afford to get this wrong’: relocating Leadbeater’s possums is risky – but it’s their only chance

Exclusive: With only 33 of Victoria’s lowland population left, the team charged with their recovery says ‘we need to be proactive’

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