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Endangered bats’ ruling roost discovered in Fiji

September 2, 2023609 Views

A cave containing thousands of endangered Pacific Sheath-tailed bats has been discovered on Vanua Balavu, an island on the remote Lau archipelago in Fiji. It was previously thought the Pacific Sheath-tailed bat population numbered in the hundreds, but the joint expedition involving the University of Adelaide, the Australian Museum Research Institute, and Conservation International found an estimated 2,000–3,000 bats. University of Adelaide PhD candidate, Siteri Tikoca, said the Vanua Balavu discovery has important implications for conservation of the Pacific Sheath-tailed bats species. "Discoveries this striking for an endangered species are rare and present a more accurate foundation for conservation planning,” said Ms Tikoca. “They provide researchers with valuable infor...

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Platypus returns to Australian national park for first time in half a century

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May 14, 2023781 Views

The platypus, a species unique to Australia, was reintroduced into the country’s oldest national park just south of Sydney on Friday in a landmark conservation project after disappearing from the area more than half a century ago. Known for its bill, webbed feet, and venomous spurs, the platypus is one of only two egg-laying mammals globally and spends most of its time in the water at night. A platypus is released by CEO of Taronga Zoo Cameron Kerr and Scientists back into Sydney's Royal National Park for the first time in over fifty years, in Sydney, Australia, May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy Due to its reclusive nature and highly specific habitat needs, most Australians have never seen one in the wild. The relocation is a collaborative effort between the University of New So...

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Winter comes early to Australia with snowfall in southeast

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May 9, 2023914 Views

Winter has come early to Australia with a cold front bringing high winds, snow and hail to the southeast in a cold snap the weather bureau says could last until the middle of the week. Snow fell in Oberon, about 120 km (75 miles) west of Sydney, on Monday, as the weather bureau warned sheep farmers across the southeast and in alpine areas that their animals exposed to the cold wet conditions could die. A general view of heavy snowfall in Namadgi National Park, Australia, May 7, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Tania Heuning/via REUTERS "I didn't expect it to be this thick," Oberon resident Wendy Stanton said of the snow. "It sort of started early yesterday afternoon and it just kept going and by the time I got up, everything was just covered in snow...

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Where first Australians lived more than 60,000 years ago!

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May 6, 2023836 Views

Red Lily Lagoon in West Arnhem Land is an important archaeological landscape with significant implications for new understandings Scientists at Flinders University have used sub-surface imaging and aerial surveys to see through floodplains in the Red Lily Lagoon area of West Arnhem Land in Northern Australia. These ground-breaking methods showed how this important landscape in the Northern Territory was altered as sea levels rose about 8,000 years ago. Their discovery shows that the ocean had reached this, now inland region, which has important implications for understanding the archaeological record of Madjedbebe—the oldest archaeological site in Australia. The findings also provide a new way to understand the rock art in the region, which is recognised globally for its signi...

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Tourists heading back to Australia, says WTTC

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January 31, 2023832 Views

Cities Economic Impact Report analysed 82 destinations around the world  The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has revealed positive signs of recovery for the Australian Travel & Tourism sector with major cities welcoming travellers once again. The Cities Economic Impact Report, sponsored by Visa and researched in partnership with Oxford Economics, analysed key Travel & Tourism metrics across 82 cities around the world, including contribution to GDP, employment and traveller spend. The analysis in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth, shows that Travel & Tourism’s direct contribution to each cities’ GDP and jobs continues to rise. But prolonged border closures in Australia and key markets such as China, means visitor spending numbers are still low. GDP contribu...

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Australian park rangers say ‘Toadzilla’ could be world’s biggest toad

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January 21, 20231066 Views

Australian park rangers believe they have stumbled upon a record-breaking giant toad deep in a rainforest. Cane toad dubbed "Toadzilla" and believed by Australian park rangers to be the world's biggest toad is held by Queensland Department of Environment and Science Ranger Kylee Gray, in Conway National Park, Queensland, Australia January 12, 2023. Queensland Department Of Environment and Science/Handout via REUTERS Dubbed "Toadzilla", the cane toad, an invasive species that poses a threat to Australia's ecosystem, was spotted by "shocked" park ranger Kylee Gray during a patrol in Conway National Park in Queensland state on Jan. 12. Gray and her colleagues caught the animal and brought it back to their office, where it weighed in at a 2.7 kg (6 pounds). Guinness World Records ...

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Passengers to be compensated after algae spoils Australia-New Zealand cruise

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January 4, 20231007 Views

Viking Cruises will compensate hundreds of passengers on its Orion cruise ship after cruisers were forced to stay on board and miss multiple stops because officials blocked port access due to marine growth on the ship's hull. The 930-guest capacity Viking Orion docked in Sydney on Wednesday, the final stop on what is normally a 15-day, 9-stop cruise of New Zealand and Australia. The front of the Viking Orion cruise ship, which has been stranded at sea for eight days after a potential harmful "marine growth" was found on its hull, is seen from the ship's observatory deck off the coast of Australia January 3, 2023. Julie Reby Waas/via REUTERS But plans went awry, local media reported, after New Zealand officials asked the ship to leave the country's waters part way through its crui...

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Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial

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December 19, 2022887 Views

Scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have successfully trialled a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae they say could eventually help rewild reefs threatened by climate change. Scientists are scrambling to protect coral reefs as rising ocean temperatures destabilise delicate ecosystems. The Great Barrier Reef has suffered four bleaching events in the last seven years including the first ever bleach during a La Nina phenomenon, which typically brings cooler temperatures. FILE PHOTO: Reef fish swim above recovering coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia October 25, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Cryogenically frozen coral can be stored and later reintroduced to the wild but the current process requires sophisticated equi...

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New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on youth buying cigarettes

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December 13, 20221391 Views

New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes. The law states that tobacco can’t ever be sold to anybody born on or after Jan. 1, 2009, it would be punishable by fines up to NZ$150,000 ($95,910). The ban will remain in place for a person's whole life. It means the minimum age for buying cigarettes will keep going up and up. In theory, somebody trying to buy a pack of cigarettes 50 years from now would need ID to show they were at least 63 years old. But health authorities hope smoking will fade away well before then. FILE PHOTO: Vaping by a man in a street in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/David Rowland) Already boasting one of the lowest adult smoking ...

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Tongan volcano eruption unleashed highest plume on record

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November 5, 2022940 Views

The powerful Jan. 15 underwater eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the South Pacific produced a plume that soared higher into Earth's atmosphere than any other on record - about 35 miles (57 km) - as it extended more than halfway to space, researchers said on Thursday. The white-grayish plume unleashed by the eruption in the Polynesian archipelago became the first one documented to have penetrated a frigid layer of the atmosphere called the mesosphere, according to scientists who employed a novel technique using multiple satellite images to measure its height. The plume was composed primarily of water with some ash and sulfur dioxide mixed in, said atmospheric scientist Simon Proud, lead author of the research published in the journal Science. Eruptions fro...