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The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill is about to go through its second reading. This action would permanently protect endangered species and provide a refuge twice the size of New Zealand. It should have been completed in 2017 when it was taken over from Nick Smith and transferred to David Parker.

As a professional science communicator who has watched many scientists struggle to convey their research effectively, I decided it was time to apply some of the principles of good science to communication.

By collaborating with fishers, governments with limited resources for enforcement can more easily identify vessels that illegally harvest shark fin. It is impossible to deny that sharing data between researchers and sustainable fishers can lead to potential progress.

A joint research project by the University of Queensland, James Cook University and University of Tasmania found that existing marine reserves need to be much larger to be effective against the overfishing of sharks species.

Australians are being asked to join a mass citizen science program to photograph how the nation’s habitats and wildlife are responding in the wake of the unprecedented bushfire crisis.

An elderly 25-year-old male Mariana crow named Clint was humanely euthanized at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) Jan.14.

The amount of material consumed by humanity has passed 100bn tonnes every year, a report has revealed, but the proportion being recycled is falling.The climate and wildlife emergencies are driven by the unsustainable extraction of fossil fuels, metals, building materials and trees.

China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems.

New Australian research highlights the delicate nature of the relationship between humans and sharks.

World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2 marks the date when 18 nations signed the Convention on Wetlands in 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.