When you see your first #numbat so thought it must be time for your first mammal #painting / #watercolor

A tiny thumb thigmotherm. This compact Clawless Gecko seems content mooching off this heat dispensing mammal.

Bird of the Year 2023!! Tasmania’s blue gum forests are alive with their calls right now - the only way that continues into the future is if we stop destroying them theguardian.com/environment/20…

Avian influenza has killed millions of seabirds around the world: Antarctica could be next, writes Dr Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania) + colleagues (Federation University, @unimelb). theconversation.com/avian-influenz…

Brilliant news! Platypuses may be reintroduced to the River Torrens around #Adelaide - where pollution drove them to extinction around 130 years ago, but the river is healthy again. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Our resident #emu family is growing up too fast!

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“Australia ranks #2 in the world for biodiversity loss, leads the world in mammal extinctions and has been named as the only developed nation on a global deforestation hotspot list.” Our federal environment laws are failing us & must be overhauled. abc.net.au/listen/program…

Frustrated by inaction on climate change, communities around the world are taking governments to court. And winning. theguardian.com/environment/20…

#BREAKING: Toondah Harbour has been saved! 🎉 We are thrilled to tell you that Toondah Harbour has finally been saved after Walker Corp withdrew their real-estate proposal today. This is a huge win for the environment and the birds that call Toondah home!

A kangaroo, a possum and a bushrat walk into a burrow: research finds wombat homes are the supermarkets of the forest theguardian.com/australia-news…

Salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour is pushing the Maugean Skate - which has been around since the dinosaurs - to extinction. It would be the first modern-day marine fish extinction driven by aquaculture. And Coles and Woolies are letting it happen.

Hungry foxes are having a ‘catastrophic’ impact on Australia’s juvenile freshwater turtles. There’s a push to change that theguardian.com/australia-news…

New research reveals that purpose-built ‘frog saunas’ can help endangered Australian frogs clear infections from the deadly chytrid fungus! 🐸 Read more below to get instructions on building your own, and use FrogID to track how they're doing: theconversation.com/our-frog-sauna…

Camera trapping competition run as part of NationalScienceWeek was wonderful - lots of people getting excited by the amazing wildlife in their backyard, & the different behaviours caught on camera Read all about it here - abc.net.au/news/2024-08-3…

Interested in #carnivores or #mammals? Check our new database of #carnivore functional traits including both extinct & recently #extinct species GEB Journal🦁🐯🐅🐻‍❄️🦝🦊🐺🐆onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge… #macroecology - big thx to Eamonn Wooster & Owen Middleton for leading🐺🐯

Breaking News: The fed govt approves rocket launch facility at Whalers Way on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. The decision proposes to clear over 23 hectares of Endangered Mallee Whipbird and Southern Emu-wren habitat. Read more here: birdlife.org.au/news/whalers-w…

Conservationists were thrilled to encounter a dozen Scarlet-chested Parrot in far western NSW, where the species is rarely observed. Find out more: australianwildlife.org/scarlet-fever-… 📷 J Douglas, G Bowen/#AWC

“The parrot sighting provides hope for seeing the species return in years to come.”   Australian Wildlife Conservancy ecologists believe the scarlet-chested parrot’s presence at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary may have been due to a fire management program that has helped maintain habitat suitability.