Human Activity is Disrupting the Heart of Africa's Serengeti Ecosystem
Repercussions of human pressure ripple from the edges to the center of an enormous protected area. Read more here.
Flight of fancy
When he rediscovered the elusive night parrot in 2013, John Young became a hero in the bird world. But his reputation is now in tatters after the veracity of his latest fieldwork was criticised by a panel of experts. Did the charismatic naturalist fake evidence of the green and yellow feathered creature? Listen to full story here
Nick Leseberg on Night Parrot research
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Night Parrot Controversy with the ABC
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New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction
A new study maps out how disruptive human changes to the environment affect the individual ranges of more than 5,400 mammal, bird and amphibian species around the world. Read more here.
'Almost certain extinction': 1,200 species under severe threat across world
Scientists map out threats faced by thousands of species of birds, mammals and amphibians. Read full article here.
Heart of the Nation
It’s late evening, approaching Parrot O’Clock, in the parched country southwest of Winton in outback Queensland, and Nick Leseberg’s two colleagues are using binoculars to scan the spinifex. That’s wishful thinking, surely: in three years of intensive fieldwork here, studying the night parrot for his PhD, Leseberg has seen this most elusive of birds fewer than a dozen times. How can a striking green and gold parrot be so hard to spot? Because it’s nocturnal, ground-dwelling,