This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. It wasn't enough simply to create the world; the Aboriginal god Beeral wanted it to be beautiful as well. And so he ...

Five years after the last recorded sighting, wildlife rangers on K'gari (Fraser Island) say a wild horse ... "They damage the fragile ecosystems. "The grasses and what they eat over here weren ...

Read more Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem The retrieved DNA ... also known as Fraser Island, off the Queensland coast, resulting in dingoes being euthanised.

The cats, which can grow as large as the island's protected dingoes ... said their presence had been felt by K'gari's fragile ecosystems. Butchulla land and sea ranger Kodi Womal said the feral ...

Wildfire has scorched around half of Fraser Island, a World Heritage site off the East coast of Australia, after starting from an illegal campfire. There are concerns that the sand island’s unique ...