Foundation for Australia's Most Endangered Species Ltd

Foundation for Australia's Most Endangered Species Ltd For over 30 years, FAME has been at the forefront of Australian native wildlife conservation, funding vital on-ground projects across Australia.

Our vision: to halt extinctions and restore habitats, ensuring a future for our unique species. The Foundation for Australia's Most Endangered is a Foundation that provides funding to organisations for on-ground conservation outcomes with a focus on seed-funding innovation that are specifically designed to save endangered species from extinction. RULES FOR INTERACTION:
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Maintaining the gains for the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby across the Flinders, Olary and Gawler Ranges is part of the Saf...
16/06/2026

Maintaining the gains for the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby across the Flinders, Olary and Gawler Ranges is part of the Safer Havens initiative, which spans the Flinders, Gammon and Gawler Ranges national parks and comprises 11 projects.

Delivered in collaboration with the Department for Environment and Water (DEW).

Read more about these projects on the FAME website, link in our bio

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16/06/2026

They're baaack! 🐦🪺

Just weeks after our inaugural project trip to the Gawler Ranges as part of the Three Safer Havens program, we've received some exciting news from the field: a pair of Malleefowl have returned to their mound and are already hard at work preparing for another breeding season.

These incredible birds are nature's engineers. Instead of incubating their eggs, Malleefowl build massive mounds of sand, leaf litter and organic material that act as natural incubators. The male then carefully monitors and adjusts the mound's temperature to create the perfect conditions for developing chicks.

The return of a breeding pair to an active mound is a positive sign for this iconic species and a reminder of why protecting and restoring habitat matters. Across Australia, Malleefowl face threats from habitat loss, altered fire regimes and introduced predators such as foxes and cats.

Thanks to the dedication of our field teams, partners and supporters, we can continue monitoring active mounds and safeguarding important breeding areas across the Gawler Ranges.

Learn more about the Three Safer Havens program: https://www.fame.org.au/projects/parent-project

World Sea Turtle Day. 🐢For more than 100 million years, Sea Turtles have cruised our oceans, helping to maintain healthy...
15/06/2026

World Sea Turtle Day. 🐢

For more than 100 million years, Sea Turtles have cruised our oceans, helping to maintain healthy seagrass meadows, coral reefs and marine food webs. These ancient mariners connect ecosystems across vast distances and are a powerful reminder of the incredible diversity of life our planet supports.

Australia is home to six of the world's seven sea turtle species, making our coastlines and marine habitats globally significant for their survival. Yet Sea Turtles continue to face growing threats from habitat loss, marine pollution, climate change and human activity. Today highlights these remarkable animals and the conservation efforts working to protect them. From nesting beaches to open oceans, protecting sea turtles helps safeguard the health and resilience of marine ecosystems everywhere. 🐢

14/06/2026

Hope is growing for one of Australia’s rarest reptiles, the critically endangered Nangur Spiny Skink. 🦎

Recent conservation efforts in southeast Queensland have delivered encouraging breakthroughs, including the discovery and protection of three remaining wild skinks at Nangur National Park, two adults and a juvenile, providing hopeful signs that breeding is still occurring in the wild.

The captive breeding program is also thriving, with 15 healthy baby skinks born earlier this year, helping strengthen the species’ future genetic resilience.

Monitoring at Wratten’s National Park has captured females with young within the newly established insurance population, another exciting milestone in the fight against extinction.

Behind the scenes, conservation teams continue vital work managing invasive species, protecting habitat, expanding breeding facilities, and using advanced monitoring technology to give this remarkable species the best possible chance of survival.

These outcomes show that recovery is possible. 🦎

Read the latest project update: https://ow.ly/omlb50ZaYmR

Video credit: Queensland Environment

12/06/2026

Love makes you do strange things…even if the love interest is a flower.

A male wasp clings on as this Rare Spider Orchid (Caladenia tensa) sways in the wind. Drawn in by the orchid's remarkable mimicry of a female wasp's scent, he refuses to let go, convinced he's found a mate. In the process, he helps pollinate one of Australia's most threatened native orchids.

This extraordinary partnership is a reminder that some species depend on highly specialised relationships for survival.

Learn more about our work to protect the native endangered orchids: https://www.fame.org.au/projects/saving-endangered-flora-species

Video credit: Andrew Bird

Protecting Sandhill Dunnarts in the Gawler Ranges, South Australia, is part of the Safer Havens initiative, which spans ...
09/06/2026

Protecting Sandhill Dunnarts in the Gawler Ranges, South Australia, is part of the Safer Havens initiative, which spans the Flinders, Gammon and Gawler Ranges national parks and comprises 11 projects.

Delivered in collaboration with the Department for Environment and Water (DEW).

Read more about these projects on the FAME website, link in our bio.

07/06/2026

Today is World Ocean Day 🌊

Just a few years ago, the future of the critically endangered Red Handfish hung by a thread.

Found only in a small pocket of Tasmania's coastal waters, this extraordinary fish had declined to such low numbers that extinction was a very real possibility. With fewer than 250 individuals known to now remain in the wild, urgent action was needed to prevent the loss of a species found nowhere else on Earth.

Today, there is hope.

Thanks to the dedication of researchers, conservation partners and volunteers, critical habitat has been restored, ongoing monitoring has strengthened our understanding of the species and captive breeding efforts have helped safeguard its future. In 2025, conservationists achieved a world first for the species, successfully reintroducing captive-bred Red Handfish into the wild — a major milestone in the fight against extinction.

This remarkable recovery effort is delivered in partnership with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS.

📖 Learn more about the project: https://ow.ly/vaf250Z8tON

Credit : Francisco Albergoli

World Environment Day | The Quiet Sound of Change 🌿🌏The whisper. The slow noise of change. Not the noise that fills our ...
04/06/2026

World Environment Day | The Quiet Sound of Change 🌿🌏

The whisper. The slow noise of change. Not the noise that fills our headlines or screens every day, but something quieter.

The sound of people restoring habitat. Recovering endangered species. Rebuilding ecosystems. Showing up year after year because they believe Australia's wildlife is worth fighting for.

This World Environment Day, we're celebrating the power of persistence. Because real change is rarely loud, and it rarely happens overnight.

But together, those actions can reshape the future in ways that once seemed impossible. 🌿🌏

Read the reflection by our CEO, Tracy McNamara: https://ow.ly/jq1q50Z7p8T

Today is World Reef Day.Coral reefs are often celebrated for their colour and beauty. However, their true value lies in ...
31/05/2026

Today is World Reef Day.

Coral reefs are often celebrated for their colour and beauty. However, their true value lies in the countless species they support, from well-known marine life to some of the rarest creatures on Earth. Among them is Australia’s critically endangered Red Handfish, a tiny, quirky species that reminds us that no animal is too small to matter.

In partnership with Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS, FAME is proud to support the Red Handfish Project, including the remarkable conservation milestone achieved last year when captive-bred juvenile Red Handfish were successfully returned to the wild, an important step forward in securing the future of this unique species.

Today on World Reef Day, we celebrate the extraordinary biodiversity that healthy marine ecosystems sustain and the importance of protecting every species that calls them home. Because when reefs thrive, so does the delicate web of life beneath the waves. 🌊🪸

To learn more about the Red Handfish Project, visit the project page https://ow.ly/mnII50Z3SKn

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