Richard Kingsford

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.

Aerial view of Murray Darling Junction with flood waters flowing in near Lock 10. Location Wentworth

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.

New wetland national park ‘wonderful addition’ to conservation reserves

29 Jun 2020

The new national park declared by the NSW government is still in excellent condition because its water supply remains largely intact, a top ecologist says.

Gwydir River, part of the Murray-Darling Basin

‘Black box’ of rules hampers management of Murray-Darling Basin flows

06 Jun 2020

A new UNSW study demands better transparency around the idiosyncratic water management rules governing water allocation in the Murray-Darling Basin.

Platypuses return to Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve

07 May 2020

UNSW Sydney researchers have started a platypus monitoring study after they returned three of the iconic creatures to Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, near Canberra.

Subsidies drive Murray-Darling Basin extractions as environment loses

01 May 2020

Subsidised irrigators extracted up to 28 per cent more water than those who received no funds under a national Murray-Darling Basin irrigation efficiency program, a new study has found.

Platypus has final health check at Taronga Wildlife Hospital

More rescue missions possible as platypuses rehomed

01 May 2020

UNSW scientists expect more platypus rescues in future as climate change takes a stranglehold on their natural habitat.

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