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Rob Brewster holding a platypus during a habitat survey

Research confirms platypus are locally extinct in Sydney's Royal National Park

Platypus have not been seen in Sydney’s Royal National Park for decades. WWF-Australia’s Rewilding Program Manager Rob Brewster joined a team of researchers in...

3 June 2022

WWF-Australia’s Dr Prishani Vengetas with Lynleigh Greig from Sydney Wildlife Rescue and Timmy the possum

On the road with Sydney’s wildlife hospital on wheels

Sydney Wildlife Rescue’s mobile care unit hit the road for the first time on 11 January 2020.

27 May 2022

Dr Prishani performing an x-ray on an injured carpet python at Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital

Flood recovery at Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital

WWF-Australia vet Dr Prishani Vengetas visited the vets at Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital to discuss their experience of the floods and help with the rescue and...

9 May 2022

Koala joey "Scampi" just before getting his ear tag

How have the floods affected koalas in the Northern Rivers?

WWF-Australia vet Dr Prishani Vengetas visited the vets at Friends of the Koala to discuss their experience of the floods and help with the rescue and...

27 April 2022

Areas of the Northern Rivers were inundated with flood water for days

On-the-ground in the Northern Rivers flood recovery effort

Northern NSW is still recovering from the devastating floods in early March 2022, and WWF-Australia conservationist Tanya Pritchard has been on-the-ground...

21 March 2022

Greater glider in a patch of old-growth forest in Munruben, Logan City, south of Brisbane

The team of women saving greater gliders

This International Women’s Day, we’re shining a spotlight on some of the women working to give greater gliders a fighting chance for survival following the...

7 March 2022

Koala mother and joey seek refuge on bulldozed logs in Queensland, Australia.

Sad, mad and glad: Koalas now legally listed as Endangered

Within a decade, the east coast koala population had gone from no-listing to Vulnerable to Endangered. WWF-Australia's Dr Stuart Blanch shares his thoughts and...

17 February 2022

Rewilding Australia and WWF-Australia are supporting Wildlife Sanctuaries in Tasmania – Devils@Cradle and Trowunna Wildlife Park – to expand their captive breeding program for eastern quolls.

How could listing the koala as 'Endangered' be a good thing?

Australia's iconic koala has officially been listed as Endangered on the east coast. It’s a shocking development, but ironically, a somewhat positive one.

15 February 2022

Rob Brewster holding a platypus during a habitat survey with UNSW platypus researcher Tahneal Hawke

Researchers prepare to rewild the platypus in New South Wales

After 50 years of absence from Sydney's Royal National Park, there is new-found hope for the platypus as WWF-Australia and our dedicated partners prepare to...

25 January 2022

Koalas Forever: Preparing koalas for a hotter world

Tanya Pritchard, WWF-Australia's Landscape Restoration Project manager, answers four questions on how we can prepare our koalas to survive in a hotter, drier...

1 November 2021

Red regrowth on burnt tree= Batemans Bay

Fires and forests: A renewed hope and focus

At WWF, we never give up. Dr Stuart Blanch shares his hope for the future of our Australian forests after the catastrophic bushfires of 2019-20.

1 July 2021

Chloe Frick (PhD Student, University of Adelaide) sets a trap on Yorke Peninsula.

Koalas Forever: Celebrating 100,000 trees in the ground

We have an exciting update straight from the field of our Koalas Forever campaign. Two flower farmers welcomed our partners Bangalow Koalas to their property...

28 June 2021