Biodiversity
WA Labor MP continues attack on his own government’s enviro reforms
In an interview with WAtoday on Thursday, the MP who has served for 16 years expanded on his criticisms by launching a blistering attack on the EPA review.
- by Hamish Hastie
Latest
WA ‘must quit prescribed burns’ with new tech now ready for roll-out
New early detection and rapid bushfire suppression tech is being rolled out across the world and along Australia’s east coast. But it seems WA must wait a while.
- by Sarah Brookes
Opinion
Perth
Australia’s nature-positive laws at risk as WA drives ‘nature negative’
The West Australian government, and sections of our media, are presenting a false picture of what WA voters want to the rest of the country.
- by Jess Beckerling
What happens when a threatened species gets in the way of a new Perth housing estate?
These spectacular little spiders are found in only one spot: in the pathway of a housing estate that received its environmental approval decades ago.
- by Sarah Brookes
How a kid called John Howard is helping fix Sydney’s weed infestation
When it comes to weed removal, they’re literally the GOAT. Now scientists hope they may spread native vegetation too.
- by Julie Power
‘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.
- by Mike Foley
Updated
Climate policy
New species declared endangered on doorstep of Woodside mega-project
Another species being declared endangered on the doorstep of Woodside’s $30 billion Browse gas field has delivered a fresh blow amid approvals processes.
- by Emma Young
‘I think they got the message’: Cook backs in watered-down environment laws after PM’s visit
WA Premier Roger Cook has welcomed news the federal government is willing to scale back stalled environment reforms which have drawn the ire of the state’s miners.
- by Jesinta Burton
Penny knows Neville needs to be locked up, like all the other killers
The number of pet cats per household could be capped as Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek prepares a scheme to protect wildlife from domestic and feral felines.
- by Mike Foley and Millie Muroi
Exclusive
Environmental protection
Plibersek accuses Greens of wooing unions at expense of environment
The Greens have slammed the government’s proposed reforms and are refusing to back a new Environment Protection Agency.
- by Mike Foley
Alcoa’s mountains of red mud fail to pass stability checks
Alcoa is storing enough caustic bauxite residue to fill Optus Stadium more than 350 times in areas south of Perth that have failed to be certified as stable.
- by Peter Milne
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