Kangaroos account for most of the animal carnage on NSW roads, says a major insurer in a call for drivers to slow down. NRMA Insurance received more than 9,000 insurance claims linked to collisions with animals last year, with more than 7,000 involving

This is such a startling account - recent studies have also shown that a third of all animal species has been lost in the past 30 years alone. Deforestation, over fishing and the need to feed an ever increasing world population are the causes.

Bringing the wolves back to the Rockies has been a huge success story. So why are we allowed to gun them down? In Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley, the return of gray wolves has turned the wild canines into celebrities.

PETA's campaigning has induced dozens of retailers to boycott or phase out Australian wool in protest at the controversial practice of "mulesing", a grim operation which involves cutting away swathes of skin around the backsides of Merino sheep.

When Japan's last oriental white stork died in 1971 it was thought that the birds had disappeared forever. But in a remarkable success story, the storks are thriving again after a reintroduction programme.

Sharks are in serious trouble - research this week has revealed that more than half the world's ocean-going sharks face extinction in the near future, and the simple reason is shark fin soup, a symbol of wealth though much of Asia.

We, the undersigned, call on the Government of the Australian Capital Territory to remove the ban on translocating kangaroos from the former Belconnen Naval Transmission Station to suitable properties across the border, and thereby remove the

Having begun their annual migration along the Australian coast, the humpback whales may be safe from Japanese whalers, but they remain at peril from fishing gear, anti-shark nets, boat strikes and predators.