Neglected and starving female husky eats companion dog
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is one of those animal horror stories and it is entirely the making of one person, a 31-year-old woman living in South Australia who was incapable of caring for her...
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Portrait of a happy quokka at sunset
Roger Federer loves quokkas. I can see why and why a lot of other people like them too. The cuteness factor is high. This is a high quality photograph too; smiling, happy and animated...
A bird which is becoming extinct because it is losing its culture
The regent honeyeater is a very attractive Australian songbird. For thousands of years and for generation after generation they have sung beautifully to attract females. The males learn their song from older, adult males....
Classic story of wildlife conservation versus destruction of habitat for commercial reasons in Australia
NEWS AND COMMENT: This story from Australia highlights the battle between the conservation of native wild species on that continent and commerce which often wants to destroy the habitat of the species in order...
Farming to feed rising human population will destroy wildlife
The world’s human population relentlessly rises and there is real concern but thankfully at last people are talking about it. Some people think that the world is already overpopulated by humans and there are...
Australia’s quokka’s survival in trouble due to climate change
This is another blow to Australia’s conservation of their small native species. The quokka is a short-tail scrub wallaby, a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat and a marsupial. They are...
Australia is Scooby-Doo
No words can be added. Just a bit of fun and fun is needed right now with this pain-in-the-bum coronavirus pandemic. Well done to the person who thought of it. Nice one. 45 things...
Has a campfire on Fraser Island, Australia, destroyed the island’s dingoes?
NEWS AND VIEWS: It is thought that a campfire started a wildfire on Fraser Island, 200 miles north of Brisbane, Australia, which is believed to have destroyed the island’s population of purebred dingoes. Another...
Video of koala and joey being released after rescue
She was so excited to get home that she completely forgot about her baby, couldn’t wait for the side to be opened and decided to climb out of the top instead. The mother is...
A koala wanted to enjoy Christmas too
NEWS AND VIEWS: The McCormick family living in Adelaide, South Australia, returned home to find a koala in their Christmas tree. Sadly, he was trying to eat pieces of it but it’s made of...
Climate change is destroying the world’s largest living structure
Researchers have said that global warming has resulted in marine heatwaves which has killed half the corals of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia over the past 25 years. Although all sizes of coral...
Purebred dog prices go through the roof in Australia
To people who are following the world of companion animals during the coronavirus pandemic, it comes as no surprise that purebred dog prices have gone through the roof in Australia. It’s about supply and...
Australia’s flying foxes are nomadic and fly long distances
Australian’s flying foxes were thought to set up home and stay put but research indicates that they are a nomadic species and like to find new places to live on a regular basis. In...
Tiny sex-mad marsupial wiped out by Australia’s bushfires?
A tiny marsupial, a mouse-like creature, called the black-tailed dusky antechinus, might have been wiped out by the summer bushfires that ravaged Australia and which were so well publicised. Scientists have searched the habitat...
Poisoning dingoes makes the survivors stronger and bigger
The argument by scientists who have published a research paper in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, is that if you poison an unwanted predator such as the dingo (Canis lupus dingo) they...