Described as “cute and charismatic, and has no interest in going into people’s houses”, the Lord Howe Island wood-feeding cockroach has been rediscovered on the tropical paradise. But why is this a good thing?
Award-winning Australian landscape and wildlife photographer Justin Gilligan takes the new Samsung Galaxy for a tour of his home island.
Failing fledglings in a seabird colony on a subtropical island in the South Pacific could be a sign of a growing global disaster…and it has nothing to do with climate change.
Pandemic-related pollution is clogging the environment, with potentially deadly consequences.
They have a great nickname but their story is an unhappy one. There are only an estimated 30 or less Lord Howe Island stick insects left.
As one of the last people to see a magnificent helicarionid land snail (Gudeoconcha sophiae magnifica) alive 20 years ago, the Australian Museum’s Dr Isabel Hyman feared the species was extinct. But on her latest expedition to the remote island, one was found among the rocks of Mt Gower summit.
Researchers have been puzzled for more than a decade about an unidentified plastic shape that keeps turning up in the stomachs of seabird chicks on Lord Howe Island.
The same converging tropical and temperate currents that create the unique ecosystem at Lord Howe are the same reason face masks have been able to make their way to the island.
Scaling mountains, leaping out of boats, winching out of helicopters… meet the researchers doing it all for endemic snails!
