Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital has marked its fifth anniversary – and treatment of more than 10,000 wildlife patients – with the launch of a permanent hospital facility and a refreshed mobile hospital ready to tour nationally in 2026. Under its parent organisation, Wildlife Recovery Australia (WRA), the charity now operates three state-of-the-art treatment and rehabilitation centres […]
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Researchers at Australian National University (ANU) studying Canberra’s superb fairy-wren population have been confronted by the largest loss of the species in a single winter since the monitoring began in the late 1980s. The deaths of 37 adults (51 per cent) and 33 chicks (85 per cent) meant less than half of the superb fairy-wrens […]
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Australia’s only all-species wildlife veterinary hospital between Sydney and the Gold Coast will begin operating from a permanent location from August 11, following the acquisition of a general veterinary practice in Lennox Head. After nearly five years of operating out of a mobile facility, Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital (BBWH) will transition to a purpose-equipped, bricks-and-mortar […]
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Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group at the University of New South Wales, has resulted in the development of a tool to standardise genetic testing of koala populations, to help provide a significant boost to conservation and recovery efforts. Lyndal Hulse, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at UQ’s School of the Environment, said the standardised koala genetic marker […]
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Although Australia’s population of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) experienced substantial growth since the late 1970s when whaling saw it driven to near extinction, a new study published recently in the journal Global Change Biology has raised concerns the recovery of the species has stalled. Lead author Anne Grundlehner, marine ecologist and data scientist, and […]
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