Kamilaroi Country lies in far northwest New South Wales, past Tamworth and crossing over the Queensland border. Here, the bunyip bird (Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus), and the brolga ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: For the past year scientists have been keeping track of one endangered Australian ...

The Ricegrowers’ Association of Australia in collaboration with Birdlife Australia, the Riverina Local Land Services and Murrumbidgee Landcare and other organisations are aiming to raise $50 000 to ...

Eleven captive-bred helmeted honey-eaters will be released into the Bunyip State Park, east of Melbourne today, to boost the bird's numbers. Seven of the critically endangered birds were bred at ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The debate around the Murray-Darling Basin is often sharply polarised: irrigation is destroying the environment, or water reforms are ruining farming communities. But there ...

The discovery of a huge bone in eastern Victoria could prove the existence of a man-eating mythical creature. The Bunyip is an amphibious creature described as part crocodile and part bird which lived ...

For the first time in more than 40 years, the distinctive booming call of the endangered Australasian bittern once again rings out across the waters of Tasmania’s Lagoon of Islands.

In 1845 persistent stories and sightings began to emerge of a huge amphibious creature that dwelled in swamps and creeks and killed anyone who got too close to the water. But despite never being found ...

Australia has some thoroughly cooked creatures dwelling in its waters. For example, platypi (yes, platypi) are really quite not OK. Sure, they’re sort of cute – although I saw one IRL and they are ...

Matthew Herring also works as a private consultant for the Bitterns in Rice Project, a collaboration between Birdlife Australia, Ricegrowers' Association of Australia and Riverina Local Land Services, ...