The Tasmanian government has released its 2025-26 state budget, which paints a picture of a challenging economic environment.

The orange-bellied parrot migrates to mainland Australia every autumn and returns to Tasmania to breed over summer. Not every bird makes it home. "A lot of us spend the whole spring holding our ...

"Capturing several specimens and breeding them would lead to more birds, but their gene pool would still be too shallow to ...

On the edge of a dense forest on a rugged Australian island, an enormous stump rises from the ground—all that remains of a ...

“Think of the emblematic swift parrot and orange-bellied parrot of Tasmania, both considered critically endangered. Swift parrot chicks. Picture: Dejan Stojanovic. “This may be because they ...

In this new effort, the researchers have focused their attention on orange-bellied parrots, which migrate between Tasmania and southern ... with another species of parrot, one that is close ...

There are new measures being taken to protect the critically endangered swift parrot in southern Tasmania. Here’s the new strategy to save them. The numbers of swift parrot are rapidly declining ...

Australia’s night parrot for instance, was thought to be extinct for 140 years until its recent rediscovery. The last known thylacine was given to Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in 1931, dying in ...