Fox invasion fear grips Tasmania
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Tasmania steps up a campaign to eradicate foxes despite little evidence of sightings.
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Australians try to tame the giant.
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Defeated in Parliament, British hunting supporters looked to the courts Friday to uphold their right to chase foxes. Some hunting supporters have threatened to disobey a new hunting ban after it takes effect on Feb. 18.
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Mrs E Reynolds of Bexleyheath, southeast London, was truly in a state of shock. &quot;Last night I sat in my living room and heard a strange noise. On investigating, I discovered a fox in my kitchen,&quot; she wrote to her local newspaper, the News Shopper, the other week.
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Spectacled flying foxes in north Queensland were seen leaving en masse just before a March cyclone struck the region, and no one knows where the animals went.
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As U.S., Australian navies prepare for exercises, scientists worry that sonar use can injure, even kill, whales.
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HOBART, Australia Wildlife officers are trying to save about 50 whales and dolphins near the coast of a southern Australian island.
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Greed-crazed salvage junk bonanza mob frenzy brewing Residents of the western UK and Irish coasts have been warned to expect an invasion by a vast flotilla of ghostly, immortal albino plastic ducks, according to reports.â¦
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Wildfires on the island of Tasmania have destroyed at least 22 houses Monday, a local official said.
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Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.
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Australians have been warned: angry arachnids are heading indoors.
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Aborigines fear police and troops will seize their children as part of a controversial clampdown aimed at preventing widespread sexual abuse, the Australian government acknowledged Tuesday.
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Australia's southern state of Tasmania  was rocked by the world's largest earthquake in  three-and-a-half years when it struck under the sea half way  between Australia and Antarctica on Friday, seismologists said.
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A search is underway around Maria Island on the east coast of the Australian state of Tasmania to see if there have been any further whale and dolphin strandings.
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measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale - happened in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Australia and Antarctica. It occurred early Christmas Eve around 800km off the coast and could be felt throughout Tasmania.
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Wildlilfe authorities in Australia are concerned by the beaching of dozens of whales in two separate incidents in waters off the state of Tasmania.
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WELLINGTON, N.Z.  - Australia has angered its neighbour New Zealand, with a plan to impose an 1,850-kilometre security zone around the Australian coastline.