The full cost of recovering all of Australia's threatened animals and plants has been calculated for the first time.

Australia plans to halt the loss of any more species and end its status as "the mammal extinction capital of the world", its government says. More than 100 threatened animals and plants ...

Australia has already lost at least 100 species since European colonisation. Now, 1,657 species are currently threatened with the same fate.

thus helping to regenerate vegetation across Australia. While studies have found dozens of plant species in emu dung, Comacchio says emus are pivotal in spreading the quandong, a hardy, native peach. ...

The koala and gang-gang cockatoo are among more than 200 animal and plant species with upgraded threats since 2016. Many of those species are unique to Australia. In recent years, Australia has ...

The last major drought in Australia over 2010 and 2011 led to nearly 20% of all trees and shrubs withering away. With the ...

There are 742 endangered Australian plants and animals on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of threatened species, which grew by six species in the past year.

About 40,000 years ago, giant kangaroos vanished Down Under. Dental analyses suggest a varied diet, meaning climate change was not the main cause.

many Australian native plants and animals are also busy – growing, flowering and raising their young. What better time to celebrate this explosion of life? Let’s set aside the holly ...

This dwarfs the current official estimate of the total number of extinctions across all plant and animal species in Australia: 100. The extinction of so many invertebrate species is not an arcane ...