In the Media

The Chair of Caves Conservation Australia talks to the Citizen Science Show about Australia's caves and karst, what caves tell us about climate change, human history, and what threatens them.

Published on Spotify: November 23. 2025.

Exploring breathing Caves that Preserve in Stone, Charcoal and Silence.

When Green Energy Threatens What it is Meant to Save

The proposed Kentbruck Windfarm in south-west Victoria, threatens, the critically endangered Southern bent-wing Bat, the Australian Bittern and Brolgas. It would be situated on the karst area of the Glenelg River, near a Ramsar wetland and national parks. It is currently being assessed by the Victorian Government, which has held six weeks of public hearings over the course of 2025. The proposal faces strong environmental opposition.

Published: Dec 27th 2025. ABC Online

First Dog on the Moon Cartoon published 30/06/2025

Feral Horse Numbers on the Rise in Kosciuszko National Park

Caves provide homes for many species of fauna, and cave crickets are one them. Recent work by Adelaide University entomologists have discovered three new species of these delicate creatures.

Cave crickets are often thought of as indicator species as their presence of lack of can indicate a major habitat change. This is why this research matters.

Published online: 2 June 2026

Ever Seen a Cave Cricket?

After two years of managing feral horse numbers in the Kosciuszko National Park, numbers have increased due to breeding and a dry summer. More work needs to be done to protect our valuable alpine region with its critically endangered plants and animals.

Published online: 1 June 2026

Beetaloo Basin Fracking Pilot to go ahead.

The Beetaloo Basin includes the karst areas of Mataranka Springs, Daly Rivers and the Roper River in the Northern Territory. Tamboran Resources has received permission to drill 15 pilot gas wells in the Shenandoah South fracking pilot area after the Federal Court rejected the argument put by the Lock the Gate Alliance that the project should be subject to the Federal environmental assessment under its water trigger provisions.

Published online: 30 June 2026

Caves Australia acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of the land, rivers, and sea on which we live, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and respect the deep spiritual connection that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to Country, especially to caves.

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