The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

80 per cent of western chimpanzees are said to have been wiped out across Africa in the last 25 years, leaving them ‘on the brink of extinction’

Two women in their 60s are arrested in Adelaide's CBD after gluing themselves to a pile of bicycles on a city street in protest against Santos being the major sponsor of the Tour Down Under cycling race.

Parks Australia staff have worked with Indigenous rangers and Anangu traditional owners to help save the rare mala wallaby from extinction.

A market where koala credits are traded is now central to the federal Labor government's plan for halting Australia's extinction crisis, but critics are not convinced that demand is strong enough to make a serious impact on the environment.

Experts analysed pollen from 250 million years ago, around the time when close to 80% of the planet’s species disappeared.

The protest group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has released a statement with the clickbait headline “We Quit”. Dashing the hopes of climate denialists everywhere, the group is not shutting up shop (yet), it is merely changing tactics. XR is keeping its options open, saying there is “a controversial resolution to temporarily…

They’ve been pushed to the brink of extinction by dams, drought, extreme heat and even the flare of wildfires, but now California’s endangered winter-run Chinook salmon appear to be facing an entirely new threat — their own ravenous hunger for anchovies.

The group says it is its 'new year's resolution'

The Population Bomber has never been right, but is never in doubt that the world is coming to its end.

You might think you have the measure of the rodent family. Perhaps just the word “rodent” conjures images of invasive rats, those urban denizens accused of spreading pathogens and parasites, chewing through wires and spoiling food.

The idea that nature — forests , rivers, mountains — could have rights, in the same way that human rights, or corporate rights exist has been building momentum.