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Chief Scientist Brett Summerell at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney with the rare corpse flower set to bloom next week.

Rotting flesh, wet socks: Sydney’s most putrid flower is preparing to bloom

The “giant deformed penis”, belying the smell of death, is actually beginning a new generation.

  • Frances Howe

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Shark nets could be removed permanently from Sydney beaches.

Why shark nets might not return to Sydney’s beaches next summer

The science has been clear for some time that the mesh nets do little to protect humans, yet do much harm to non-target animals. The politics is finally catching up.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
A Carnaby’s black cockatoo in a Perth pine tree.

Lifeline for Perth Zoo vets dealing with starving black cockatoo influx

The government has acted on the starvation crisis flooding Perth vets and rehab centres with endangered black cockatoos. But will it act on the crisis’ cause?

  • Emma Young
The Great Koala National Park will affect many people living and working on the Mid North Coast.

A national park would be good for koalas. What about the humans?

In the stretch of coast and hinterland from Kempsey to Grafton, the fates of thousands of people hinge for better or worse on the NSW government’s imminent decision about the Great Koala National Park.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Tony Armstrong in the ABC and Screen Australia documentary series ‘Eat The Invaders’

ABC show reckons we should eat invasive species. It’s a recipe for disaster

Eat the Invaders has an appealing pitch, but while well-intentioned, the show could end up doing more harm than good.

  • Carol Booth
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Plibersek made a vow on environmental reforms. Albanese has put that at risk

It appears the prime minister has put Labor’s political survival ahead of the survival of Australia’s endangered species

  • Nick O'Malley and Bianca Hall
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An audience member tries fried whale after watching the pro-whaling documentary Whale Restaurant: Inconvenient Food at Waseda University in Tokyo.

‘Whale is delicious’: The push to revive Japan’s whaling culture

These days, most Japanese people have either never eaten or rarely eat whale meat. But one filmmaker wants to change that.

  • Lisa Visentin
Woogaroo Forest at Springfield, with the Brisbane CBD on the horizon.

Homes v habitat: The fight to save a forest amid a population boom

Campaigners want to save south-east Queensland’s Woogaroo forest for koalas; developers want the land for desperately needed housing. Something has to give.

  • Courtney Kruk
One of Black Mountain’s proposed wells is 2 kilometres from Mt Hardman Creek in the Kimberley.

‘A dog’s breakfast’: Environment groups flag ‘inconsistencies’ in US company’s Kimberley fracking plans

An American oil and gas company with plans to begin fracking operations in the Kimberley is accused of attempting to pull the wool over the federal government’s eyes.

  • Holly Thompson
Portrait of Guy Verney, casting a wet fly for rainbow trout in Yandyguinula Creek. Trout fishers have been surprised by a recent NSW government decision to halt stocking of the non-native species in several creeks in the Southern Tablelands. Monday 20 May 2024.

Trout fishing on the hook for threatened species’ survival

The popular pastime could be curtailed to save at-risk native species from extinction.

  • Mike Foley

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