A wildlife rescue team safely captures and relocates a wandering wombat after it becomes trapped in a backyard with several dogs. The video highlights calm animal handling and the importance of ...

A northern hairy-nosed wombat joey spotted by motion camera at a Queensland refuge offers a hopeful sign for one of Australia’s rarest mammals. The moment highlights the importance of secure refuges, ...

A wombat has made its home in the main street of Robe, evidence of an influx of the animals in the South Australian coastal town. Their numbers appear to be increasing in Robe, as more land in the ...

A Supreme Court justice has ordered VicForests to temporarily halt the harvesting of fallen trees at a site in Victoria's west, after a community group alleged it had not surveyed for threatened ...

Scientist Julie Old and research masters student Fiona Casey found that the remaining small population of wombats in the wild are eating more invasive buffel grass than previously – an alarming ...

Powrunna State Forest, a 2,800 hectare site in Queensland’s southwest, will be the new home of the critically endangered Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat. With an estimated 315 remaining in the wild at ...

In the early 1980s, a small group of scientists and conservationists faced a dark realization. The northern hairy-nosed wombat, a burrowing marsupial that once ranged across much of eastern Australia, ...