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
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Endangered bettongs complete 2,000km journey to new home in South Australia
A group of tiny, endangered marsupials has completed an epic 2,000 kilometre journey from Western Australia to a new home on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
29 July 2022
Baby boom for first bettongs on Yorke Peninsula in over 100 years
Brush-tailed bettongs released on Yorke Peninsula last year are doing so well nearly every female caught for a recent health check was carrying pouch young.
2 May 2022
Brush-tailed bettongs back on mainland South Australia after disappearing more than 100 years ago
One of Australia’s rarest marsupials, the brush-tailed bettong, has been reintroduced to mainland South Australia after being locally extinct for more than a...
22 August 2021
Census results show West Australian woylies are ready for big move to South Australia
New research has found healthy woylie numbers in the north-eastern part of the Upper Warren region of Western Australia, paving the way for the critically...
7 April 2021
Australia’s plastics scorecard: Queensland races ahead with today’s plastic bill
Queensland has raced into first place on WWF-Australia’s new single-use plastics scorecard with the introduction of their single-use plastic bill into...
15 July 2020
Cockatoo chicks hatch among burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island
Glossy black-cockatoo chicks have hatched among burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island, boosting hopes the endangered species can be saved from extinction.
25 May 2020
Predator-control fence brings hope for Australia’s most threatened species
Officially launched at an event at Warooka today, the predator-management fence is designed to limit the movement of foxes and feral cats into the area and...
6 November 2019
Australia launches largest-ever rewilding project
WWF-Australia is today launching an ambitious project to create a safe haven near Adelaide and repopulate the area with native species that have been extinct...
31 January 2019
Keep watch to save numbats
West Australians are being asked to help save the endangered numbat by reporting sightings of the termite-loving marsupial.
1 September 2017
Drone pictures reveal the toll of raising young calves on whale mothers
New drone pictures reveal that a southern right whale mother named Scooter dramatically shrank in width – by 43 centimetres in just two months – as she...
12 October 2016
New research shows BP withdrawal in Great Australian Bight a win for whales
WWF-Australia said new research released today re-enforces that BP made the right decision in withdrawing from oil exploration in the Great Australian Bight.
12 October 2016