Wild Cam: Thermal cameras spot roosting birds in the dark
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 ...
Australia
Australia uses poison sausages to tackle feral cat problem
Australia has eliminated an estimated 211,560 feral cats since it decided in 2015 to kill 2 million of them by 2020. The cats prey on threatened rodent and ...
Balloons play an outsize role in seabird deaths
Parents may want to think twice before allowing their children to let balloons fly off into the atmosphere. When seemingly harmless latex balloons end up in the ...
Heat-sensing drones spot koalas through the leaves
Some species can be notoriously difficult to spot, especially if they occupy forests with dense canopies. To detect koala populations through the cover of ...
Did climate change claim its first mammal?
The last recorded sighting of a Bramble Cay melomys was in 2009, when a fisherman reported seeing a few of the small rodents take flight across the Australian ...
JWM: Is Australia’s croc success killing humans across sea?
Saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) have rebounded in northern Australia, but the swelling populations may be creating problems across the Timor Sea to the ...
Birds adapt to novel ecosystems across the world
Conservationists have long called for restoring landscapes as much as possible to the way they were before humans altered them, but they’ve started embracing the ...
Lab method could help detect pollutants’ effects on wildlife
Contaminants in the environment can have a range of harmful impacts on threatened wildlife, but without extensive field work, it’s hard to gauge what those ...
Tasmanian devils decimated by face cancer
In 1996, a wildlife photographer in northeastern Tasmania snapped the first records of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) with lesions marring their faces. ...
Duck! It’s a drone!
The use of drones in the wildlife field has soared over the last five years, from tracking polar bear activity in the Arctic to fighting rhino poaching in South ...