Environment
Conservation
‘Wake-up call’: A sting in the bee love story for native pollinators
Australia has about 1700 species of native bees, and many of them are being outcompeted by European honeybees.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Animals
Ratsak is losing its bite: How to get rid of the rats in your ranks
Black rats in Australia have developed a genetic mutation that’s linked with resistance to common rat poisons. And there’s more bad news.
- by Bianca Hall
An outdoor influencer rallied against higher camping fees – and 23,000 people responded
The social media campaign led to a shout-out by the NSW environment minister in parliament. It comes as the Victorian government was forced to backflip on free camping.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Waste
Australian container return schemes are a booming good news story
Unlike efforts to recycle soft plastics, container deposit schemes have been a success across Australia, with billions of bottles recycled.
- by Nick O'Malley and Bianca Hall
Humpbacks are an Australian success story. They have two advantages that most whales don’t
It’s peak hour on the humpback highway off the east coast of Australia – yet other whale species aren’t doing nearly as well.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Silencers, night vision and cultural hunting: Shooters Party reveals its demands
A new body stacked with shooters would push for more access to public land, under a proposal being considered by the NSW government.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Endangered species
There were no known sightings of this critically endangered animal outside Victoria. Now it’s in NSW
Hello, possum! Thought to be extinct in NSW, a Leadbeater’s possum has been discovered in Kosciuszko National Park.
- by Bianca Hall and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The aphrodisiac that unlocked the secret sex life of snails
Fifteen specimens of a species of Norfolk Island snail thought to be extinct until 2020 have multiplied into 800 over four years in a captive breeding program.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Pollution
The grime balls were a symptom of an ailing sewerage network. The cure could be to drink recycled water
Sydney Water is proposing to add purified recycled drinking water – effluent that has been highly treated back to drinking standard – to Sydney’s tap water supply.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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How To Poison a Planet
Revealed: The icky reason behind build-up of forever chemicals in Sydney catchment
NSW has the highest proportion of residents with cancer-causing PFAS chemicals - news which coincides with revelations that wastewater treatment plants are allowed to release treated effluent into rivers and creeks in the Warragamba catchment.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Brumby cull
After the cull: How Kosciuszko is slowly stirring back to life
After the NSW government adopted the controversial policy of shooting wild horses from the air, the alpine national park is beginning to recover.
- by Nick O'Malley
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