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Shot-hole borer damage in a box maple tree.

Premier concedes ‘tough’ shot-hole borer battle ahead as Kings Park trail closes

The popular Lovers Walk at Kings Park will be permanently closed as biosecurity personnel embark on a second bout of tree removals at the Mount Eliza escarpment.

  • Jesinta Burton

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Unknown vandals have drilled multiple holes into a hundred year old fig tree, poisoning it.

Fight to save Hunters Hill trees after ‘calculated act of vandalism’

Injected with poison, razed and drilled with multiple holes. Now the latest in an alleged string of “calculated” attacks against Sydney’s trees has left residents fuming.

  • Cindy Yin
Agriculture minister Jackie Jarvis launched the new Canning Vale facility on Saturday.

Fight against WA’s shot-hole borer given $97 million boost with new biosecurity headquarters

On Saturday Agriculture and Food Minister Jackie Jarvis unveiled a new state-of-the-art headquarters for WA’s biosecurity operations, stepping up the war against one of the most destructive pests to breach Australia’s strict biosecurity controls.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Fire ants pose a huge threat to outdoor living, tourism, agriculture and native ecosystems.

‘Downright dangerous’: National body responds to claims officers ‘planted fire ants’

In a statement, the National Fire Ant Eradication Program called the allegations “false and unfounded”.

  • Courtney Kruk
Shothole borer WA incident controller David Griffiths and WA chief plant biosecurity officer Vincent Lanoiselet.

Victims pile up in Perth’s shot-hole borer war. But is there another way?

The polyphagous shot-hole borer is about the size of a sesame seed, but if it finds a tree it likes it can rapidly multiply, growing a population of thousands in a short time.

  • Hamish Hastie
The consumer watchdog is reassuring free range egg and chicken meat producers that they can retain their marketing during lockdown orders.

‘Free-range’ label to stay when chickens locked down to contain bird flu

A new strain of bird flu has infected the rest of the world and could enter Australia at any moment. When it does, poultry producers will be on red alert.

  • Mike Foley
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Workers put a dead crane in a bag at the Hula Lake conservation area, near of the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel.

Wildlife emergency: Australia prepares for bird flu onslaught

A deadly strain of bird flu has swept the globe, and Australia is the last uninfected continent. Preparations for the carnage have just begun.

  • Mike Foley
The quarantine area for polyphagous shot-hole borer has been expanded to cover the entire Perth metropolitan area and now includes two zones to help contain the spread of the destructive pest.

Send me a sign: Councils say state too slow in shot-hole borer fight

Councils are terrified the borer will get into the hills and beyond to the Wheatbelt, saying this would be “both environmentally and financially catastrophic.”

  • Hamish Hastie
Australia’s black swans and other wildlife face extinction if a deadly strain of bird flu arrives on our shores.

‘It’s just a matter of when’: Australia war-gaming deadly bird flu outbreak

Australia is untouched by a virus that has devastated wildlife around the planet, but the spring migration from Antarctica is beginning, and with it comes an extinction-level threat for native birds and mammals.

  • Mike Foley
WildPies chef Jo Barrett says eating pies made from feral animals will help the environment.

Star chef lifts the (pie) lid on Victoria’s feral animal problem

Award-winning chef Jo Barrett has cooked up a delicious way to rein in some of the state’s biggest environmental vandals.

  • Dani Valent

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