Ten considerations are provided to protect mature-forest-dependent marsupial gliders and their habitat from intensive logging in Victoria, Australia.

Fireworks displays are spectacular but have a dark side. Most people are aware that fireworks can scare our pets, but their effect – both short and long term – on wildlife and the environment, and on our health, can be enormous. Fireworks produce not just lights and noise, which can scare breeding and migrating birds and other animals, but also deposit pollutants into air, plants and water. It’s time for something new.

To better understand and protect sharks and the sites used by the dive tourism industry in Fiji, divers monitored 592 sites over 5 years, providing 146 304 shark observations from 11 species on 30 668 dives. We provide the first spatio–temporal description of the occurrence and abundance of sharks by species across Fiji, and demonstrate the value of community-led partnerships.

This study explored how urbanisation affected the behaviours of a common Australian honeyeater in response to mist-netting. Of the five responses evaluated, only breathing rate provided a clear indicator of distress at handling that differed significantly between sites in/near cities and those in rural areas. We suggest that urban birds exhibited lower breathing rates due to chronic overstimulation in response to their urban lifestyles, which then prevented individuals from further elevating breathing rates in response to antagonistic stimuli of capture and handling.

Discovering why bogong moth populations are in decline is critical to guide recovery actions. Prioritising which of the numerous hypothesised drivers of decline are worth retaining for further investigation is valuable, and this paper does this in a structured way. Considerable uncertainty remains around the driver(s) of more recent declines, and designed experiments are needed to address this.

Counts of the number of opaque growth zones in sectioned otoliths (ear bones) were used to estimate that the age of a Kyphosus sydneyanus (Buff Bream), from southern Western Australia, was 93 years. This is greatest age of a coastal fish species in Western Australia and more than double the previous maximum age of a Kyphosus species.