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In Western Australia's Nyangumarta country, rangers and scientists are showing how the desert's top predator helps protect small native animals.
Millions of herring are returning to rivers in Maine and beyond as small, long-obsolete dams come out one by one.
The Cape Honeybee Conservancy moves wild colonies out of ceilings, walls and garden features and gives them safe new homes on farms.
Around 200 bush bird species, plus dozens of waterbirds and shorebirds, make Darwin and the Top End one of Australia's richest places to watch birds.
Quta tectona, found in the teak woodland of Walayar, takes Kerala's tally of known antlion species to 14.
Stanford scientists found that bleached coral fragments recovered within weeks when placed in contact with healthy, genetically identical coral.
Three mothers with babies and two young males have been released into an intact protected forest in Indonesian Borneo.
A new survey of Aldabra Atoll counts about 183,000 giant tortoises, a remarkable comeback for an animal hunted to fewer than 1,000 in the 1800s.
Thirteen freshwater turtles are back in the Gwydir Wetlands in New South Wales after months in the care of zookeepers, who are now incubating the next generation.
Stripped bare by guano miners in the 1860s, Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier Reef has been replanted by hand over two generations, and the seabirds have come back in force.
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