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Aerial of logging koala habitat in Lower Bucca State Forest= NSW

WWF launches Australia’s first national Trees Scorecard; NSW & Qld rate ‘Very Poor’

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has released Australia’s first national scorecard to assess which states and territories are leading the way in...

31 July 2023

Bags of plastic bottles at a recycling station, Kisumu, Kenya

Plastics feeding climate crisis: emissions to double by 2050

New research shows the plastics Australians consume in one year produce as much greenhouse gas as 5.7 million cars on our roads annually

10 July 2023

Left to right: Nick Weigner (WWF); Nyaliga Rangers Silas Purcell, Thomas Birch, Clayton Victor; and Pius Gregory (WWF)

Cameras detect toads across vast WA Indigenous area

Motion sensor cameras detected cane toads more than 250 times, revealing the extent of the invasion confronting Nyaliga Rangers in the eastern Kimberley region...

4 July 2023

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WWF-Australia's Position Statement on the Voice to Parliament

Why WWF-Australia is supporting recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution and an Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

30 June 2023

Eucalypt forest in dry bed of Flaggy Creek, north of Coonabarabran, NSW

WWF calls on government to pick up pace on nature reforms

With the Nature Repair Market Bill now through the House of Representatives, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia called on senators to work together to...

21 June 2023

A brush-tailed bettong leaps into its new home in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park.

Bettongs on board: tiny marsupials fly interstate to new home in South Australia

Seven commercial flights landed in Adelaide last week with some unusual passengers - a group of tiny, critically endangered marsupials. Seventy-three...

20 June 2023

Young glossy black cockatoo - When her mother returned Firefly would launch into vigorous calls begging to be fed

Egg-citing news: rare glossy black cockatoo hatches in NSW Northern Rivers

The population of one of Australia’s rarest cockatoos has grown by at least one after glossy black-cockatoo parents successfully raised a chick in the Northern...

14 June 2023

GPS collars to unlock secrets of greater gliders

Researchers are tracking greater gliders in one of the first studies to use GPS collars on the world’s largest gliding marsupial.

13 June 2023

WWF welcomes historic commitment to cut plastic waste

Strict new government rules aimed at cutting waste and boosting recycling will have a major impact on Australia’s plastic pollution crisis, according to the...

9 June 2023

Australia to phase out destructive gill nets from Great Barrier Reef waters

WWF celebrates over $160 million protection package for World Heritage icon

5 June 2023

Researcher Chloe Frick holds a juvenile male brush-tailed bettong born on the southern Yorke Peninsula.

Critically endangered marsupials now thriving on Yorke Peninsula

New monitoring has revealed the population of brush-tailed bettongs continues to grow in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park - a promising sign for Marna...

19 May 2023

Tony Rowland on his Kyogle property holding his conservation agreement

Boost for koalas with signing of first conservation agreement supported by WWF-led partnership

Kyogle property owner Tony Rowland has become the first person to sign a permanent conservation agreement as part of a Collaborative Koala Habitat Protection...

18 May 2023