Wildlife
Opinion
Pets
To catio or not to catio? Perth cat owners, there is no question
The popularity of cat enclosures is growing as owners look to better the life of their feline friends (and the environment).
- by Claire Ottaviano
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National parks
‘This activity is a real threat’: MPs piling on pressure over state’s koala park promise
Premier Chris Minns is being urged to immediately end logging inside the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park.
- by Nick O'Malley
‘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.
- by Mike Foley
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Forestry
The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved in
Forests on the North Coast are earmarked for a national park to protect “the best patch of koala habitat in the world”, but the area is still being logged in epic proportions.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Why so many dead birds are being washed up on Australian beaches
Authorities on the alert for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu have tested dead shearwaters, also known as muttonbirds, in NSW and Victoria.
- by Bianca Hall
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Animals
I took a Perth kid to the Queensland rainforest. Was I doing something wrong?
We’d looked forward to this spectacular trip so much, and yet at the start I could not quieten the sense of wrongness that had been troubling me for so long.
- by Emma Young
Seeing the world’s loneliest animal moved me to tears. Now there’s hope
The northern white rhino is on the brink of extinction. But a laboratory in Germany may now have the means to save them.
- by Sue Williams
Petitioners take aim at Perth drive-in theatre proposal over tree removal, late-night noise
A proposed 807-car drive-in includes four outdoor cinema screens, a central café building and mini golf course.
- by Claire Ottaviano
Fresh call for rodent bait ban in WA after black cockatoo’s death
A black cockatoo has died in what is believed to be the first case of rodent bait poisoning in the species.
- by Claire Ottaviano
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