Off the Coral Sea, seabird islands have just been found healthy from end to end. Behind them, Parks Australia is writing six new plans for every Commonwealth marine park, and the public window is open until 4pm on Wednesday 30 September.
Two voyages to the seamounts around Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands brought home more than a thousand kinds of animal, and 149 of them had never been seen by science.
In the far west of Victoria, a small trust asked its supporters to help buy a drained wetland and bring the water back. They did it in 2025, then did it again this winter, and a flower thought lost from the district turned up in the reeds.
On 1 July, five new marine reserves came into force along the coast south of Dunedin, three hundred and eight square kilometres of sea where nothing is taken, and Kāi Tahu rangers now share the keeping of them.
Tallaganda lost many of its old hollow trees in the fires. Scientists hung 120 insulated boxes in their place, greater gliders moved in and raised joeys, and now men's sheds are building the next batch.
Where the Lachlan River spreads into reed beds and red gum forest before it meets the Murrumbidgee, 34,000 hectares of wetland now belong to the Nari Nari Tribal Council, bought with a $15 million loan and twenty five years of patience.
It is Father's Day in Australia, and to all the fathers out there, we hope you have the best day. One underwater father we would like you to meet is the endangered White's Seahorse, a doting dad who takes care of all the babies, with little hotels helping to take his kind off the endangered list.
In the hills of Santa Catarina, the Xokleng people have grown and planted close to a hundred thousand Brazilian pines, a tree they call sacred, across their own territory.
In 1974 there were four Mauritius kestrels left alive in the world. All four of them. Today there are more than four hundred.
In the far south of Mexico, the largest tropical forest reserve in the country is held together by the villages living inside it.
