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Global catalogue of ecosystems launched to enable coordinated conservation efforts

02 Mar 2021

A world-first framework will help identify the ecosystems that are most critical for biodiversity conservation, research, management and human wellbeing.

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Tube fishway technology will get fish up and over those dam walls

05 Jan 2021

Engineers and scientists at UNSW Sydney have come up with an ingenious way to get fish past dam walls, weirs and other barriers blocking their migration in Australian rivers.

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New fishway technology to get fish up and over those dam walls

21 Dec 2020

The tube fishway allows fish to glide past dam walls, weirs and other river barriers, with the potential to revitalise Australia’s ailing freshwater fish stocks.

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Waterbird numbers and wetland areas declining despite temporary relief: aerial survey

16 Dec 2020

Eastern Australia's wetlands and waterbirds have partially recovered from the drought – but long-term trends remain concerning, an aerial survey by UNSW researchers has revealed.

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Life, the universe and everything: some of our most-read science stories of 2020

08 Dec 2020

The most-read stories of 2020 take us from the depths of the mind to the edges of the universe.

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Platypus should be listed as a threatened species: new report

23 Nov 2020

We need to list one of the world’s most iconic animals as a threatened species, UNSW scientists say.

Bird’s-eye view: surveying Eastern Australian waterbirds

21 Oct 2020

Every year, Professor Richard Kingsford and his team from UNSW Science’s Centre for Ecosystem Science (CES) spend more than a hundred hours conducting the Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey – one of the largest wildlife surveys in Australia.

Releasing Bilby back in the Taronga Sanctuary at Dubbo

Landmark release sees bilbies return to Sturt National Park in NSW

24 Sep 2020

A nocturnal marsupial has been reintroduced into a feral-free area created by a UNSW-led project.

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Twenty per cent less water in Murray-Darling rivers than expected under Basin Plan: report

03 Sep 2020

An independent group of leading Australian scientists, economists and business people including a UNSW academic have released their investigation into whether water reforms have resulted in the flows needed to improve river health. 

Explore NSW's new wetland national park

08 Jul 2020

At the end of June, the NSW government declared a massive new national park in north-western NSW - a welcome and timely development, according to UNSW ecologist Professor Richard Kingsford, who did the first comprehensive aerial surveys of the area’s waterbirds in the 1990s.

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