The plague has become unmanageable,particularly for WA grain farmers.

WA’s regions have been hit by thousands of mice. Will stronger baits help turn the tide?

Thousands of mice have been running rampant in towns including Northampton,Mullewa and Ravensthorpe. Now,farmers have a new tool in their fight against the rodents.

  • Holly Thompson

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The shot-hole borer attacks living trees by farming fungus.

The tiny beetle that could wipe out half the trees in our cities

Sydney,Melbourne and Brisbane are at huge risk if the shot-hole borer makes its way from Western Australia because the climate is more favourable to the pest.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
A photo taken by a resident of a nest believed to contain fire ants at Musgrave Park in South Brisbane.

Fire ant discovery in park threatens major Brisbane festival

There are fears the outbreak could pose a major health risk to thousands of attendees.

  • William Davis andCourtney Kruk
Australian Reptile Park manager Billy Collett with a freshwater crocodile captured at Wallsend on Sunday,March 1,2026.

‘Don’t belong here’:Croc captured in Newcastle park

Wildlife carers are working to find a permanent home for the reptile abandoned in a suburban waterway.

  • Jack Gramenz
Camera traps were set up outside Uganda's"Python Cave".
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Bat cave footage shows disease spread risk for first time

Camera traps were set up outside Uganda's "Python Cave".

Fire ants were first recorded at the Port of Brisbane in 2001.

Fire ant eradication attempts may be helping the invaders,study finds

Mass pesticides could be killing the ants’ predators and wasting millions of dollars,according to a new study on the contentious national program.

  • Julius Dennis
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Rabbit populations are booming in rural and urban areas.

‘Complacency crept in’:Australia defenceless against feral rabbit boom

Lack of research and development funding has left Australia without its key weapon against exponential growth of one of the most devastating pests.

  • Mike Foley
Kylie Conroy has been moving the unwell birds into her backyard.

Kylie’s yard is usually full of magpies. Now they’re dying,and she wants answers

In the last two weeks,Kylie Conroy has counted more than 30 birds that have died in her Inala backyard or been taken to the RSPCA wildlife hospital.

  • Julius Dennis
Stumps left behind after massive trees were removed from Mounts Bay Road in Perth’s CBD following an infestation by the polyphagous shot-hole borer.

New Perth quarantine zones quietly adopted as shot-hole borer march advances into hills

The state has binned its old A and B quarantine zones in place for the past two years.

  • Hamish Hastie
BRISBANE,QUEENSLAND,AUSTRALIA - 2021/09/19:Cane Toad (Rhinella marina) in a shallow pond in boondall wetlands. (Photo by Joshua Prieto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

One of Australia’s worst pests is on the march to the Pilbara. But we have a ‘unique’ chance to stop them

A new study predicts that without containment efforts,cane toads will infest up to 75 per cent of the Pilbara within three decades.

  • Holly Thompson