‘Defending The Unburnt Six’ crucial to wildlife recovery
Threatened species that escaped Australia’s devastating bushfires are under threat from landclearing and logging, but a powerful new partnership aims to...
15 April 2021
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Bushfires, drought & heatwaves cause massive loss of Greater Gliders in Blue Mountains
New research estimates that the 2019-2020 bushfire crisis, together with prolonged drought and heatwaves, has resulted in a sobering 60% decline in the...
6 April 2021
Statement from WWF-Australia on WA's bushfire emergency
WWF is saddened by the ongoing bushfire emergency in Perth in Western Australia.
4 February 2021
Google’s AI technology to identify animals impacted by bushfires
Artificial intelligence and an army of new sensor cameras will be used to track the recovery of animals impacted by bushfires in one of the most extensive...
16 December 2020
Quokka research shows bushfire recovery takes time
Five years after a severe bushfire nearly wiped out a quokka population near Northcliffe in Western Australia, research indicates they may not fully recover...
11 December 2020
WWF: 60,000 koalas impacted by bushfire crisis
More than 60,000 koalas were among the animals impacted by last summer’s bushfire crisis, according to a report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for...
7 December 2020
Australia’s largest mobile wildlife hospital ready for action
Construction has just finished on Australia’s largest mobile wildlife hospital, ahead of a gala launch in Byron Bay on Thursday 26 November.
23 November 2020
WWF welcomes national agency to help prepare for natural disasters
WWF-Australia has welcomed a plan by the Federal Government to establish a National Resilience, Relief and Recovery Agency to help Australian communities...
16 November 2020
Glossy-black cockatoo census results are in
During the last week of September, staff and volunteers from the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board’s Glossy-black Cockatoo Recovery Program systematically...
6 November 2020
Six bushfire regions receive support to build back better
Six additional bushfire-affected destinations will receive support to build back better and revitalise their local economies through nature-based tourism,...
5 November 2020
Aussie celebrities band together to end wildlife extinction in powerful WWF-Australia video
To recognise National Threatened Species Day, WWF-Australia has today released a powerful video featuring Cody Simpson, Layne Beachley, Stephanie Rice, Harry...
7 September 2020
New WWF report: koalas suffer 71% decline across fire grounds
A new report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia found the 2019-20 bushfires resulted in the loss of about 71% of koala populations in...
6 September 2020