2026 • Jan 24
Tiny falcons are helping keep the food supply safe on cherry farms
Their presence appears to lower the risk of food-borne illnesses from pathogens. ...
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2025 • Dec 05
60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research findsMore than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Afr...
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2025 • Nov 16
We have lift-off! Melbourne’s skyscraper peregrine chicks take to the sky
Falcon fledglings’ inaugural flight watched by dedicated fans includes dramatic crash-landing
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2025 • Oct 25
Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing
A handful of bat species hunt birds, and new sensor data tells us how. ...
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2025 • Oct 04
‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’: stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion
BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered birdGet our
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2025 • Sep 29
Threatened kārearea falcon wins New Zealand’s 2025 bird of the year
The country’s fastest bird has taken out the top prize in a scandal-free year for the annual pollNew Zealand’s fastest bird, capable of flying 200km/h in its pursuit of prey, has been crowne...
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2025 • Aug 29
Murray Watt backs ‘no-go’ zones where development is banned – but not for Tasmania’s Robbins Island
Environment minister says scientific evidence did not convince government that remote island qualifiedGet our bre...
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2025 • Aug 13
Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species
Chair Tony Juniper celebrates successes but says ‘collective endeavour’ needed to halt country’s decline in natureEngland needs a massive “collective endeavour” to halt the country’s nature ...
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