Geographical Location: Australia & Oceania

It’s a tale of two wombats. Down to fewer than 200 individuals, the northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii) is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of...

Colored in drab brown with zebra-like stripes across its breast and standing about a foot tall, the Guam rail that zookeepers call Tasi isn’t much to look at in first...

Toxic bait cartridges automatically fired from helicopters may be the first successful way to efficiently reduce numbers of invasive brown tree snakes at the landscape scale on the island of...

The recent Australian bushfires have exacted a toll not just on wildlife but on wildlife research. “Some studies have been set back months or years,” writes Nature Index. “Destroyed scientific...

New research shows that invasive brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) behavior makes it harder for researchers to detect them in Guam. The snakes have caused ecological problems in the Pacific...

Wildlife that survived the bushfires in Australia may face a new threat — feral cats. Studies have shown that the continents’ feral cats hunt along recently burned areas in search...

Bushfires burning through Australia have left an estimated 1 billion animals dead. An initial estimate show the loss of 480 million mammals, birds and reptiles, based on population densities available...

Conservationists can attract threatened terns to nesting habitat safe from invasive predators in New Zealand by deploying fake bird models and using speaker systems to play bird sounds. Black-fronted terns...

Is the dingo a separate species? Or is it a wild dog? The answer could determine its future, writes Undark. While local governments throughout Australia are working to remove the...

Thermal cameras are helping researchers focus on bird populations while the lights are out. Birds at roost aren’t always easy to survey due to the darkness and the fact they...