Avian influenza — also known as bird flu — has ripped through chicken farms in southern Australia since May last year. The outbreak has led to the culling of more than 10 per cent of the national ...

Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

Agriculture Victoria named birds at “high risk” of infection as “chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, quail, pheasants, emus and ostriches”. Wild birds such as ducks or geese can ...

Victoria’s Acting Chief Veterinary Officer ... “If you are in the control or restricted areas, you cannot move birds, products (including eggs and manure) or equipment into, out of, or within ...

The first property at Euroa hit with the influenza outbreak had about 76,000 birds and has now been depopulated in line with requirements from Agriculture Victoria. The second farm has 180,000 ...