Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

The number of Australian animals, plants and unique ecological communities officially recognised as being in danger of extinction rose to 2,142 last year. Australia has one of the world's highest ...

The Academy is pleased to announce the awardees of its 2025 Margaret Middleton Fund for endangered Australian native vertebrate animals, which supports early-career ecology researchers focused on ...

The collection includes over 600 images of a land and its flora and fauna, some of which were completely new to the British and to western science in the late 1700s. Together with specimens and ...

For millennia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have harvested Australian flora and fauna for food. Landline presents stories from its archive exploring the past and future of Australia's ...