The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

University of Melbourne partners with US biotech company to plan genetic restoration of the thylacine

It is hoped the release of 13 critically endangered smoky mice into a NSW national park will save a species that is on the brink of extinction.

XR members are expected to take to the streets of London again for three days from September 10

Some Australian native plants — including paperbarks, lilly pillies, eucalypts and bottlebrush — are grappling with their own pandemic as the exotic myrtle rust fungus spreads.

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonisation, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early – and…

New research suggests the extinction crisis may be even worse than we thought. More than half of species that have so far evaded any official conservation assessment are threatened with extinction, according to predictions by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

From toucans and puffins to iridescent hummingbirds, the most unique creatures are the most vulnerable to human impacts, says Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden

Researchers fear spread of invasive disease could be disastrous for Australia’s diverse plant life and are calling for urgent national response