A young northern hairy-nosed wombat was filmed at an Australian refuge, signalling progress in species recovery efforts.

"One of Australia's rarest mammals" was caught in camera after an ecologist sifted over 100 hours of wildlife footage.

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Seeing a wombat in the wild in Australia is not a rare experience, but when ecologists managed to capture this particular one emerging from a den and casually wandering past a motion-sensor camera in ...

Camping is an exciting activity for the whole family where you can discover new places and explore new experiences. It also ...

Wombats might be the only animals with cube-shaped scats, but there are plenty of other strange bowel movements being performed by Australian animals.

Good news stories about the environment are sometimes hard to find. Enter Australia’s northern hairy-nosed wombat, which has stepped back from the edge of extinction. Wombats are being relocated to ...

Jackie French was used to the quirks of wild animal behaviour – and then she met a carrot-mad wombat with an appetite for destruction. A bestseller was born ...

Julie is an Associate Editor at Australian Mammalogy, a member of the Australian Mammal Society, and a Director on the Board of The Wombat Foundation. Wombat noses and whiskers don’t just make them ...