The Australian Government is preparing for a highly contagious strain of bird flu that is not in Australia but has spread quickly across the world. Learn more about HPAI H5N1.
Report unusual signs of disease or mass bird deaths. Immediately contact the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline on 1800 675 888.
Conservation of Australia's biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variety of all life forms on earth - the different plants, animals and micro-organisms and the ecosystems of which they are a part.
National framework
Science and research
- Australian Biological Resources Study
- Australia's biological resources
- Bird and bat banding
- National Environmental Science Program
- Supervising Scientist
- Threatened Species Scientific Committee
Conservation under the EPBC Act
- Threatened species & ecological communities
- Invasive species
- Migratory species
- Wildlife trade & conservation
