... and became synonymous with visits to the island. Peafowl eventually became too much of a nuisance and in 2009 the population was reduced by the Rottnest Island Authority leaving just male birds. In April 2022 the last peafowl died. We present the history of peafowl on Rottnest Island and describe how...

... dramatically during and immediately after mining at both sites. Some frog species became temporarily more abundant (e.g. Litora aurea , L. latopalmata , Crinia tinnula ), some species became less abundant and eventually disappeared from the sites (e.g. Adelotus brevis , Limnodynastes tasmaniensis...

... in the conservation agenda, called ‘endangered species’ in NSW until 1995, is examined from the time the legal interpretation of endangered species became important in 1991with a decision by Justice Paul Stein of the NSW Land and Environment Court. Endangered species had captured both the legal and popular...

...Harry Recher; William Davis, Jr. From 1999 to 2003, the Great Western Woodlands in Western Australia experienced above average summer and autumn rainfall. Although rainfall from 2004 to 2010 approximated long-term seasonal and annual averages, the soil and litter layer became parched...

... and this subsequently became the baseline for further population monitoring. A subset of 48 sites was resurveyed in 2010, and about one third of the sites (~40) were surveyed annually on a rotating panel between 2013–2019. Wildfire significantly impacted the Bago Plateau during 2020 and 51 sites were resurveyed post...

...C. R. Dickman; T. M. Newsome; L. M. van Eeden Ancestral dingoes arrived in Australia at some time, or times, during the Holocene, heralding a period of long and uneasy coexistence with the human inhabitants of the continent. For the first Australians, dingoes became a valued and integral part...

.... Fidelity to the breeding territory became more irregular post-disturbance and after two years the territory appeared to be abandoned. This response may suggest that the cumulative loss of habitat for established pairs as a result of urban expansion is likely to adversely affect reproductive success...

... on the iceberg, the chef became fatter each day, and one night they discovered the cook eating Albert. Although “shrouded in mystery” they were so enraged they rushed at the corpulent cook, who being round, and the ice slippery, rolled off the iceberg and was killed in the freezing waters – hence the title...

... this period. In contrast, the 3–4-year cycles of red backed voles ( Myodes rutilus ) are becoming more dramatic and the amplitude of their peak years are increasing. Four species of Microtus voles fluctuated independently of red-backed voles prior to 1998, but their peak years became synchronous thereafter...

...Gordon Grigg ABSTRACT During the late 1970s I developed an idea that later became known as ‘sheep replacement for rangelands’. It grew from the realisation, gained during hundreds of hours of low flying on kangaroo surveys, that overgrazing by sheep was turning, or had already turned Australia's...

...Shelley Burgin ABSTRACT The term ‘biodiversity’ emerged in the mid-1980s and quickly became sufficiently popular that it could have been viewed as a ‘new field of science’. The broader community has also embraced the term and, ultimately, it has become a proxy for species conservation...

... active while inside the mounds, a few became torpid while in the mounds. The use of the mounds was influenced by ambient weather conditions. Vegetation mounds have a management advantage over other types of over-winter habitat in that they are portable, cheap and easy to maintain and easy to monitor...

... rainforests, already ravaged by clearing in the 1800's, was reduced to what is today less than five percent of its original area. In response, the super-flocks became scarce in the early part of the 20th Century. While they were able to adapt by feeding off paddock rainforest trees, another trial came...

...David Priddel; Robert Wheeler In August 1994 a Bryde's Whale Balaenoptera edeni entered and became entrapped in the Manning River, New South Wales. The individual was an immature male of the rare pygmy form of Bryde's Whale: it was 10.3 m long and weighed approximately 7.7 tonnes. The whale...

... in the area from which dingoes were taken rather than a reduced offtake from the overall area. Half the dingoes were taken by trapping and 37% were shot, although shooting, which was more opportunistic than trapping, became relatively more common during the period. The sex ratio of the dingoes killed...

... and following WW II was paramount, however, and efforts to do this greatly accelerated the spread of gambusia. The fish established in high densities in areas where undesirable environmental consequences later became apparent, precipitating the disaster for wildlife that we see today. Gambusia...

... but separated by a mesh partition (i.e., “adjacent”), and intermingling together in the same water (i.e., “mixed”). We minimized any effects of coprophagy through the use of a mesh that was below the tadpoles and through which the faeces settled and became unavailable. We found that: (a) L. aurea tadpoles grew...