Fresh Science

Protecting Tiwi wildlife is a hollow argument Climbing trees reveals a housing shortage for tree-rats and other endangered animals. Estimates of tree hollows – which form the houses of several endangered species in northern Australia – are much too high, researchers at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory have found. And the discovery could…

Photo credit: Rebecca Rogers, ‘ Magpie Geese in flight over a mango orchard in Northern Australia.’ Bird conservation is literally on the radar Decades of meteorological data are telling the story of Australia’s birds. Weather radar can be used to better manage bird populations and potentially save them from extinction, a researcher at Charles Darwin…