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Mountain rescue
Thu, 11 Apr 2019
A mountaintop rescue mission is being launched in Queensland’s Wet Tropics World Heritage Area to collect and record plant species at risk from climate change.

Innovative new toolkit to fill gaps in missing shark and ray data
Wed, 10 Apr 2019
WWF and the Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries & Aquaculture (CSTFA) at James Cook University have developed the first toolkit of its kind that provides a variety of ways to collect scientific data on sharks and rays to help conserve and manage these species, many of which are threatened.

Global warming disrupts recovery of coral reefs
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
The damage caused to the Great Barrier Reef by global warming has compromised the capacity of its corals to recover, according to new research published today in Nature.

Spectacular rare gecko discovered on Townsville’s doorstep
Wed, 3 Apr 2019
A rare and beautiful new species of gecko has been discovered in North Queensland.

Inbred invasive ants eat their sterile sons
Fri, 22 Mar 2019
James Cook University researchers have discovered the queens of an invasive ant species cannibalise their sterile sons in an extraordinary strategy designed to improve the colony’s survival.

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