In a wildlife conservation first, artificial Intelligence technology and 24-hour surveillance will be used to monitor the plains-wanderer, a critically endangered bird, as well as threatened marsupial species like the kowari and bilby Key points: Australian Wildlife Conservancy is using camera surveillance to monitor the "last populations" of some endangered species in Queensland's outback Researchers are setting up 60 monitoring …
Across the Pacific, undersea cables weave between island nations, bringing them online and, in some cases, connecting them to Australia, but some governments fear this interconnectivity comes with risk. "That was seen as a red line that Australia would not cross and so we jumped in with a better deal providing the cable as a grant that would be implemented …