Puffin pairs travel close for breeding success
BBC WILDLIFE MAGAZINE
By Nardine Groch April 2017
A new study reveals how puffins that stay near each other while migrating produce more chicks.
8 fascinating facts you should know about tapirs
BBC WILDLIFE MAGAZINE
By Nardine Groch May, 2017
Tapirs are rather unusual-looking mammals, and they are absolutely amazing creatures.
First live giant shipworm discovered
BBC WILDLIFE MAGAZINE
By Nardine Groch April 25, 2017
Researchers find 1.5m-long bivalve mollusc alive in the wild.
Feral cats rewrite the Australian story
ABC RADIO NATIONAL BACKGROUND BRIEFING 2014
Australia is being swept by a second wave of post-settlement extinctions, and the culprit is the feral cat. Cats are estimated to eat 75 million native animals every night and the future for Australian fauna looks bleak. Gregg Borschmann and Nardine Groch investigate.
Scientists call for Tasmanian devils to be reintroduced as mainland predators to combat feral cats
ABC NEWS
By Nardine Groch October, 2014
Tasmanian Devils could soon be released into a mainland national park to compete with feral cats.
Feral cats tear through last wild bilby population in Queensland’s Astrebla Downs National ParK
ABC NEWS
By Nardine Groch October, 2014
As few as 200 native bilbies remain in the wild in Astrebla Downs National Park, after a recent plague of feral cats devastated Queensland's former stronghold for the endangered marsupial.
COP21: inside the world’s biggest media centre
CRIKEY
By Nardine Groch Dec, 2015
Paris' climate conference, COP21, has attracted an unprecedented level of media attention. Freelance journalist Nardine Groch is there to capture all the action.
Platypus project seeks clean bill of health
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
By Nardine Groch May, 2013
Sponsors of a new website, platypusSPOT, hope to amass a community-driven database on platypus distribution, which they say is essential for the effective management and conservation of the iconic animal.
Attenborough and Branson back 1.5 degree target for coral reef survival
MOJO NEWS
By Nardine Groch, at COP21 in Paris, December 9, 2015
For the Great Barrier Reef to survive, global warming must be kept below 1.5 degrees, key environmental campaigners told media and supporters in Paris, site of the global climate conference.
A new way forward: Indigenous Australians join global climate movement
MOJO NEWS
By Nardine Groch, at COP21 in Paris, December 1, 2015
Representatives from indigenous Australia were among hundreds of delegates from around the globe who united in Paris last week to express the challenges they faced from climate change and to offer solutions.
Celebrities descend on Paris climate conference to support human rights
MOJO NEWS
By Nardine Groch, at COP21 in Paris, December 12, 2015
A plethora of celebrities have appeared in Paris during the second week of the UN climate change negotiations to give weight to the importance of key human rights issues being included in the final agreement.
Protest with sole: Climate activists from across the globe vote with their feet
MOJO NEWS
By Nardine Groch, at COP21 in Paris, December 4, 2015
About 22,000 pairs of shoes filled one of Paris’s most important squares, Place de la Republique, on the eve of the arrival of 150 world leaders from around the world for the UN climate change talks.
Grabbing rhino survival by the horn
MOJO NEWS
By Nardine Groch, June 19, 2014
A particle physicist turned leadership trainer and businesswoman directs her talents to saving rhinos
Threatened species win support
MOJO NEWS
By Nardine Groch, September 2, 2013
Major failings in current systems to help save threatened species were revealed in a recent Senate report. The Coalition says it will act to end this crisis facing native fauna, putting a largely ignored issue on the election agenda.
‘Inappropriate’ back-burns could drive species extinct
ABC ENVIRONMENT
By Nardine Groch, March 2015
Scientists warn that the wrong fire patterns could see more losses of threatened species across the country.