From brightly colored birds to the much-loved sugar glider, Australia's native animals are a sight to behold. The island continent is home to nearly 600,000 plants, animals and insects, many of which ...

From the bossy brushtail who spends most of his time on the forest floor, to the leaping sugar glider, and the resilient mountain pygmy possum which makes in the snowy peaks of the Australian Alps, ...

But, in 1966, a live male possum made a surprising debut at the University Ski lodge at Mt Higginbotham in Victoria and was finally identified both as a Mountain pygmy-possum and as very much alive. A ...

Conservationists have long anticipated the recent announcement that the national effort to eradicate possums, stoats and rats will now include feral cats. But the government's decision steers New ...

Threatened native wildlife will get a reprieve from predators with a $14.1 million boost to predator control funding, Conservation Minister Tama ...