For a fairy-tale ending, vote 🥇 Australian fairy tern for bird of the year #boty 🧚

Kaurna custodian Susan Dixon: “Our cultural footprint is in that site. We wouldn’t knock down Adelaide’s cathedral. We need to honour this parkland. It should have the same value.” Story by @henrybelot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I like big bats and I cannot lie! A cartoon... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sadly this adorable cuddly bat is critically endangered. Who do we think we are!? | First Dog on the Moon

The federal environment minister has conceded that successive governments acted unlawfully when they failed to create mandatory recovery plans for native species threatened with extinction

A/Prof Kaempf said he was "absolutely gobsmacked" when told his position would be axed, along with experts in coastal erosion, whale and dolphin research. "The skills that you lose is understanding algae blooms, mass strandings of whales and marine heatwave impacts.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

For all those folk in Vic, you might be interested to know that the wild winds we've had last few days has resulted in the lowest 24hr period of brown coal generation on record 🎉

It’s the last native mammal on the island, but the “incredibly cute and fluffy” Christmas Island flying fox is critically endangered with no recovery plan and severely outdated conservation advice.

The toy swap is a community event that aims to shift consumption practices and normalise climate action. It also aims to bring people together and support them in a cost-of-living crisis.

A bumper season for southern right whales in South Australia - a “sign of hope” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Western treatment plant is definitely on my to-do list! 🪶

Melbourne

Beautiful sunrise in Melbourne this morning (if only photographs could fully capture it)

It’s #NationalScienceWeek! 🐦 Our HANZAB encyclopaedia is now online & free – covering every bird ever recorded in Aus, NZ & Antarctica. Updated with the latest taxonomy & threat statuses, it’s a game-changer for bird lovers & researchers alike 🔗 hanzab.birdlife.org.au #BirdLifeAustralia #Birds

"After watching cockatoos voluntarily begin dancing ... it was difficult to reach any conclusion other than cockatoos most likely dance because it’s fun." Study by Charles Sturt University researchers finds cockatoos have more than 30 dance moves. theconversation.com/body-rolls-a...

Stick insects! Everyone loves stick insects. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can't decide! They're all superb www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Decades on and can still so easily recall the words to Each peach pear plum and Peepo! 🥧🧸 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Wood heaters are so polluting, it only takes a relatively small number of homes burning wood to expose millions of people in a city to pollution, said Professor Johnston from the Centre for Safe Air. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

“thanks, Utrecht-Maastricht morning train you were quiet and you let me write” Wonderful reminder to always read the acknowledgments.

"So, how long did the minister spend on the sand before being ushered back to Canberra? Ten minutes, or 11 if you count the walk back to the car park." #algalbloom analysis by the ABC's Thomas Kelsall www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

SA algae crisis ‘incredibly disturbing’ but federal government won’t declare natural disaster, Watt says

How the National Disaster framework describes natural disasters #algalbloom "Natural hazards: shocks caused by a natural process or phenomenon that may cause loss of life, injury, damage and disruption ... 1/4

#Melbourne already has more motorways than many cities of its size. The massively expensive $26b North East Link is known as "the missing link" ... it sounds kinda final, but just as that one gets built, there's always another one being planned 🙁 #InducedTraffic

Fruit stickers are annoying and bad for the environment. So why did an Australian ban come unstuck?

Echidnas? Yes please!! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia’s bogong moths are guided by the stars as they navigate up to 1,000km to a place they’ve never been before, new research has concluded, making them the first invertebrates confirmed to use celestial navigation ✨ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For those who missed it, I recommend this by @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“In the wild, a female calf will often stay in the herd that she was born into for her whole life,” says elephant welfare expert Dr Lisa Yon. A solitary life isn’t good for #elephants, but positive welfare in captivity isn’t just a question of numbers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Fascinating research on the frankly astounding foraging flights of southern bent-wing #bats. As Amanda Bush from ARI says, the distances involved are "pretty amazing for a bat that’s less than the size of a mouse". 🦇

As someone who helped run/ worked on democracy sausage sizzles for many years, I'd just like to say that even if you've already pre polled, PLEASE drop by your local public school tomorrow and treat yourself to something from the BBQ or cake stall. Your money goes to a good cause.

Valerie the miniature dachshund is saved! Or is she? Perhaps Valerie has saved us... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shocking, I know - but turns out the $1300 bill increase we keep hearing about is extremely misleading #auspol Specifically, it is based on DMO increase for resi customers on controlled load in Endeavour network region (with $275 added on top) Approx <1% customers www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ex...

Tim Flannery: “The shift in public sentiment – that’s enduring. It is very hard, once the sentiment has shifted, for fossil fuel industries to regain all their ground.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What a beautiful story 🐚 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Families should be able to participate in the life of their public school community without joining Meta. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Guardian Australia has launched a series about nature and threatened species. It's called Last Chance: The extinction crisis the Australian federal election is ignoring. Includes videos, news and comment pieces. Here's a preview of what it's about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kQ...

The far eastern curlew can fly 10,000km non-stop – but may not be able to escape a $1bn government-funded development

Endangered bum-breathing turtles and the town working to save them – video

This is part of our Last Chance series, looking at the "inexorable slide" to extinction of Australia's incredible Yellow-bellied glider. Watch the video too featuring the tradie, Josh Bowell, who is trying to save them in his corner of Queensland. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More great work by @theguardian.com pushing the biodiversity crisis onto the election agenda. Poignant, powerful story by @petrastock.bsky.social on the sudden collapse of bogong moth populations, threatening survival other species including mountain pygmy possums www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🦋 A PhD scholarship at Western Sydney University is available to study the behavioural ecology, distribution, and migratory flyways of the bogong moth across Australia. Applications close 30 April 2025

Another brilliant story in this series, this time by @petrastock.bsky.social, about deberra & their ecological and cultural significance. Ecosystems only function if species interactions are maintained. The decline of bogong moths must be urgently addressed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Survival is necessary but being gorgeous, creative and excessive has played as important a role in evolution as survival skills.” Georgina Woods www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

People often ask me, how do you keep going in the face of such sustained harm to the environment? My answer is always the same, it's the many amazing people, like Eva Czislowski, that give me hope & strength to keep fighting. Thank you, Eva, & thank you @australia.theguardian.com for this series.

“While I may never see one in the wild, knowing that spotted handfish continue to walk the bay floor near the Hobart casino brings joy to my soul” Prof Tim Flannery www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Invertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favourite - Since February we’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose #teamcuttlefish www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The video team at @australia.theguardian.com won Best Shortform Content at last night’s Australian IT Journalism Awards! Huge congrats to our team and in particular to @joshtaylor.bsky.social, whose reporting and presenting formed the bulk of our awards submission!

Wayne Boardman: “There's a lot of pressure being put on our environment from climate, from degradation of lands, run-offs, toxins and so on, and we need to know what is going on.” “It's important to find out for the future.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Because the spider was only discovered and described in 2022 it has not been included on state or federal threatened species lists, giving it no legal protection. story by Sarah Brookes www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...