The fastest parrot on the planet
The Swift Parrot is the fastest parrot on the planet. It flies up to 88 kilometres an hour. It is also critically endangered.
Bruny Island: Critical habitat site for birds
Bruny Island is one of the most important habitat sites for a number of threatened species. It is a refuge area, like many islands around Australia and across the world. Bruny Island contains the most important breeding habitat for the Swift Parrot
Birdlife Australia: Saving Birds, Saving Life
BirdLife Australia is one of the peak bodies for birds and bird conservation across Australia. Their overarching goal is to halt the extinction crisis and recover threatened birds across Australia.
Lake Malbena
Lake Malbena is the heart of Tasmania's Western Lakes wilderness in the Walls of Jerusalem National Park. The lake was carved out of the surrounding landscape in the last period of glaciation, well over 10,000 years ago.
From surfing came a love of the ocean
Brett Fenton, now a global leader in marine conservation, developed a lifelong love of the ocean through a childhood up and down the New South Wales coast surfing
Connection with nature turns hope into action
According to marine conservation leader Brett Fenton, hope is important, but not enough. But having a deep connection to the environment that we live in, can help us turn hope into action.
Encounter with a seal in Sydney Harbour
Ocean lover Brett Fenton describes a very special encounter with a seal in the heart of Sydney Harbour
Project Restore: Bringing marine life back into Sydney Harbour
Project restore is a leader globally in moving beyond habitat-by-habitat marine restoration to provide an example of how multi-habitat restoration can be conducted at seascape scale.
Living Seawalls for Sydney Harbour
In Sydney Harbour, certainly upriver, nearly 100% of the natural shoreline has been transformed to artificial shorelines. This remarkable restoration project seeks to bring natural shoreline and marine biodiversity back
Restoring urchin barrens in Sydney Harbour
Sea-urchins have over-adapted to urbanisation and their proliferation is causing urchin 'barrens', areas devoid of kelp and seaweed. A project is tackling this by removing urchins, enabling areas of kelp forest to be restored
Pelagic Trip - Eaglehawk Neck
Pelagic birds are birds that live on the open sea. Here wildlife photographer Marcio Conrado explores some of the extraordinary pelagic birds off the coast of the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania
Operation Crayweed
Crayweeds are a type of seaweed in Sydney harbour and surrounds that are like ecological foundations in our marine environment. If you take that away, everything else goes. If you bring that back, then everything else comes back with it. That is the goal of operation Crayweed.