Australia has already lost at least 100 species since European colonisation. Across land and freshwater habitats, 1,657 species are currently threatened with the same fate. Their populations have ...

Dr Mitchell, who is the deputy director of the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute, said it was partly good news that so many species were being recognised as threatened. She said ...

"Australia's ever-growing list of threatened species is a direct result of decades of under spending," she said. "Turning this tragedy around will take a dramatic increase in action and investment.

Threatened plants and animals will be protected and a sacred Aboriginal site preserved with the Minns Labor Government’s purchase of Broughton Vale Station, 75 kilometres east of Broken Hill in Far ...

The study "The estimated cost of preventing extinction and progressing recovery for Australia's priority threatened species" has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This was the focus of our new research. Alarmingly, we found Australia's carbon credit scheme largely fails to protect threatened species, despite assumptions to the contrary. The findings provide ...