AUSTRALIA

Dogs are often thought of as humans’ best friends. But in Australia, they’re also being enlisted to save other species. Canine conservationists—and their sensitive noses—are helping researchers locate dwindling populations of elusive koalas as their habitats get fragmented by urbanization and devastated by wildfires. Dogs ...

Flying foxes are extremely valuable to the environment, so it's important to study the health of the population and their whereabouts. To answer the questions of where they go and what they feed on at night, a wearable, nighttime camera was needed.

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan fronts the team helping scientists investigate the lives of some of Australia’s most iconic animals. Koalas, fruit bats and kangaroos take the cameras into their secret worlds.

After each NATURE premiere, we gather online videos we love into a playlist. From our newest film to incredible footage from around the web, here were our favorites. And don't forget, you can always subscribe to our newsletter so you don't miss a thing! In Case ...

Each week, we feature a worthy citizen science project or nature news segment from around the world. This week, to coincide with the premiere of our film Australian Bushfire Rescue, we're highlighting Bushfire Recovery Projects. According to their website, by "spot[ing] animals in photographs captured ...

The Worst Fires in Recent History The Australian mega-fires that occurred between July 2019 and February 2020 were unprecedented in their severity and the area they covered. Almost 100,000 square kilometers of southern Australian forest, woodlands, heathlands, grasslands, and farmlands burned. These fires were horrific ...

  The population sizes of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles have seen an average drop of 68% since 1970, according to a recent report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released on Wednesday, Sept. 9. NATURE spoke with Dr. Nikhil Advani, WWF's Director of ...

Premieres on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 8/7c. An estimated one billion animals died in the horrific Australian bushfires last year. Through the help of tireless volunteers working to rescue the remains of their once-flourishing environment, stories of animal and human resilience have emerged. Rising ...

Kangaroo: a marsupial from the family Macropodidae. Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Diprotodontia Family: Macropodidae Genus: Macropus Kangaroos belong to the Macropodidae family, which means ‘big foot’ in Latin. This is in reference to the species’ unusually large hind feet. The species known as kangaroos ...