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 Riverina supports the world’s largest breeding population of an endangered water bird, according to a research project supported by rice growers. The Bitterns in Rice project, run by Matt Herring ...

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.

It's not a good look. With a "one, two, three, pull!" a human chain of half a dozen people tightly linking arms attempt to heave me out of the mud. At first, I don't budge, not an inch. Finally, with ...

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, ...