‘More Energy’: Aussie Mum’s Train With Ash Fitness Challenge
Imagine feeling the fittest you’ve ever felt without even stepping foot in a gym. For full-time caravanning mum…
Flooding damages nesting sites for endangered white-throated snapping turtles
After a record nesting season for an endangered species of turtle last year, it is a “devastating” start…
Turtles ‘awaiting their fate’ buried under mud at NSW wetlands after inflows halted
In New South Wales’s north-west, conservation biologists are wading through knee-deep mud trying to save dozens of turtles…
Fears for Ningaloo Reef after ex-cyclone decimates region amid coral spawning season
The sheer number of marine life carcasses washed ashore by ex-tropical Cyclone Narelle has shocked many, but it…
Turtle power drives Vietnam’s coastal conservation efforts
HANOI: Marine turtle populations are declining along Vietnam’s coasts, as overexploitation, pollution and climate change place increasing pressure…
World’s oldest living land animal, a tortoise, is still alive
LONDON (AP) — Reports of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a nearly 200-year-old…
North West Island on the Great Barrier Reef declared rat-free
North West Island is home to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable seabirds and nesting turtles on the Great…
Tauranga local captures photos of rare leatherback turtles off Mount Maunganui
“It’s almost unheard of to see five leatherbacks together because they’re generally solitary turtles. They usually only group…
Turtles discovered in Dumaresq Dam could be dumped pets
The unexpected discovery of four turtle species at Dumaresq Dam, near Armidale in northern NSW, has researchers perplexed…
Front lines in ‘ghost net’ war expand to Australia’s north with $25m funding boost
Top End Indigenous ranger groups will be able to continue removing tonnes of discarded fishing gear from Australia’s…
High hopes for endangered white-throated snapping turtle after record number of clutches
The hum of insects blends with the breeze whispering through the treetops, and the lapping water. It is…
Fossil tracks in Italy record a turtle stampede from 80 million years ago
In the spring of 2019, free climbers scaling the risky cliffs of Monte Cònero on Italy’s Adriatic coast…