tourists were jailed for a week after setting a quokka on fire.... Luckily, the quokka survived and wasn’t

A new survey of the kiwi population in New Zealand’s Northland has detected the bird in 50 per cent of the sites where the bird was silent in 2016. The survey, conducted by the conservation group Kiwi Coast, is an annual nocturnal event in which people listen and track kiwi calls and estimate how the bird’s populations are doing across the region.In the current survey, the bird was detected in 35 sites where they were detected five years ago and in an additional 93 sites in which they were not p

The Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 2021, was well regarded as a conservationist, and was praised as “ a champion for the environment ”.... In 1962, Gilbert’s potoroo, a smaller marsupial related to kangaroos, were thought to have died out. Potoroos, the world’s rarest marsupial, are now said to be back from the brink of extinction according to Australian scientists. The number of Gilbert’s potoroo is now believed to have passed 100, making the scientists who are dedicated to preserving