National Parks and Wildlife Service

Pit stop off the humpback highway: multi agency response to a sub-adult humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae in Sydney Harbour, Australia

The east coast Australian humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae population continues to recover post-whaling and is now estimated to be at least 50,000 individuals. The combination of population growth and increased human activities within coastal environments means there is a hi...

DNA metabarcoding improves detection of rare and volant prey in the diet of feral cats (Felis catus)

Context Cats (Felis catus) have contributed to the extinctions of more than 60 vertebrates and continue to be a major conservation threat globally. Conservation managers traditionally record the diet of cats from morphological (manual) searches of stomach or scat samples. However...