Wildlife crime may sound like something that happens far away in dense jungles or on the high seas, but it is an increasingly ...

In 1935, native beetles were wreaking havoc on Australia’s sugar cane crops in Queensland. The beetle larvae lived in the ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

The Australian authority that regulates pesticides has finally released its long-delayed review of the rodenticide poisons ...

An implant that makes Australian animals lethally poisonous to cats that prey on them could help save species on the verge of extinction. Australian mammals are easily targeted by cats because many ...

Australia has announced a five-year plan to rid the country of feral cats by killing them with a toxic gel in order to keep native species safe. Feral cats are responsible for the extinction of over ...

If Australia is renowned for one thing, it's the proportion of highly dangerous animals that populate the continent. The three most venomous snakes in the world are from Australia (with a few others ...

The idea of introducing non-native species to a new ecosystem remains a controversial and sensitive subject. However, for the sake of this thought experiment, it is worth exploring which North ...