Melbourne Zoo is using an ancient Egyptian method to relocate a 120-tonne tree into its new lion enclosure. The 60-year-old Moreton Bay Fig is being moved across the zoo into a site that will ...

Both Moreton Bay and Port Jackson fig trees are native to Australia and grow to be more than 100 metres tall over their long lives. They’re very popular as a backdrop for wedding photography ...

After joining the Australian Army in London in November 1950, a group of us arrived in Melbourne just before Christmas. All in our early 20s, we were fully trained infantry soldiers, having ...

The park setting next to the Moreton Bay Fig tree in Santa Barbara has reopened. The area had been closed off for several years due to issues around the property including damage to the tree roots.

The Moreton Bay fig was a prominent feature on the horizon at the harbourside residence of the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove, with estimates it had stood for a century.

The insects forage at night for food on host plants, such as Moreton Bay fig and wooly tea tree, and spend their days “resting in tree hollows and other retreats,” zoo officials said.

A recent feature on Melbourne’s favourite trees included a call-out for tips on beauties The Age might have overlooked on our first sweep. ... A beautiful Moreton Bay fig at Logan Park, Altona.

THIS 130-year-old Morton Bay fig has been valued as Melbourne’s most expensive tree, with experts estimating it’s worth the same price as a house in its leafy suburb. The pricey Morton Bay fig ...

Named Ravi, the 7-year-old panda had arrived at Adelaide Zoo last week after he was brought in from another zoo with hopes that he would pair up with a female red panda named Mishry. But by Friday ...

A wild situation unfolded when a red panda escaped from an Australian zoo. Zookeepers located the small mammal in a fig tree at a local park on Sunday — two days after it broke loose from the… ...

Locals are shocked as century-old Moreton Bay fig trees, popular as wedding backdrops, are killed — but the council says it’s the only way forward. The Polyphagus shot-hole borer beetle is ...