Lyn Alcock is known as the 'Numbat whisperer', spending hours every day observing and photographing the tiny, endangered marsupials, recording behaviours that have never been seen before.

A group of numbat lovers has come to the rare marsupial’s rescue in a pocket of south-western WA. AT FIRST GLANCE, Robert McLean seems an unlikely conservationist. A meat-truck driver by day, he’s a ...

It used to be the stuff of science fiction: bringing a long-dead species back from extinction by painstakingly piecing together its full DNA sequence, or genome. It’s not quite as straightforward as ...

The new Dryandra Woodland National Park in Western Australia is a conservation area for endangered species Located two hours south-east of Perth, a newly-designated national park in Western Australia ...

Miro doesn't know it yet, but his life is about to change. The one-year-old Numbat has lived at Perth Zoo since birth under the watchful eyes of keepers, who have had to met his challenging diet ...

There are less than 1000 numbats left alive on the planet, including those in enclosed reserves and zoos. One of the main areas were they are found is the Dryandra woodland in WA’s southern wheatbelt.

It used to be the stuff of science fiction: bringing a long-dead species back from extinction by painstakingly piecing together its full DNA sequence, or genome. It’s not quite as straightforward as ...

An endangered numbat has been filmed peeking out of a log and showing off its long tongue. Wildlife photographer Mark Jackman travelled to Boyagin Nature Reserve, 130km south-east of Perth, hoping to ...

More than a dozen critically endangered numbats are adapting to their new home inside a predator-proof zone in Western Australia's outback. Australia's numbat population has been decimated by ...

Conservationists in Australia saw several young animals, including a set of quadruplets, from “one of the rarest mammals in the world,” photos show. Screengrab from video shared by Brad Leue / ...