A number of animals, plants and an entire ecosystem were added to Australia's extinction watch list in 2024. We look at the new species under threat.

Murray crayfish once thrived in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. The species was found everywhere from the headwaters of ...

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Australia is home to some of the most rare animals in the world, with nearly 80% of plants, mammals, reptiles, and frogs ...

Picture: Crab.e.cam “Rays over 1m disc size are fully protected. “It is just effing (sic ... “Recreational fishing for rays from a boat, jetty or shore is lawful in South Australia with most of the ...

Picture: Crab.e.cam “Rays over 1m disc size are fully protected ... jetty or shore is lawful in South Australia with most of the fishers adopting catch and release practices.

Australia has already lost at least 100 species since European colonisation. Across land and freshwater habitats, 1,657 species are currently threatened with the same fate. Their populations have ...

Brush-tailed bettongs once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia, but the species’ population size shrank by 90% ...