Biosecurity
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.”
- by Hamish Hastie
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‘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
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.
- by Dani Valent
‘It can get worse’: The bite that burns like fire and killed a football hero
The bites cause a burning sensation lasting for about an hour, with an outbreak in Queensland already forcing closures of sporting fields and beaches.
- by Mike Foley
Quarantine breach: Tree-killing beetle spreads to 145 suburbs including Perth hills
The polyphagous shot-hole borer has spread to the Perth Hills with fears it could wreak havoc on national parks already suffering after a long, hot summer as well as orchards.
- by Sarah Brookes
WA scientists shut out from working on borer vaccine for dying trees
A Perth-based plant pathology lab says it was stripped of a permit after it ran foul of the state government’s narrative.
- by Sarah Brookes
‘A potential wildlife massacre’: Eyes on the sky as virus wings its way towards Australia
A virulent strain of bird flu is morphing as it spreads around the world and Australia looks to be its end destination.
- by Mike Foley
Black swans in ‘significant peril’ from bird flu
Australia’s poultry industry is grappling with an outbreak of H7 bird flu, but the H5N1 strain, which has spread to every other continent, could wipe out native species.
- by Mike Foley
‘I thought it was a horse’: Rogue pigs run amok across NSW
Oscar Pearse was sitting on his tractor planting a crop of chickpeas when he looked over his shoulder and saw his nemeses approaching.
- by Catherine Naylor
Bird flu hits another farm near Sydney
Avian influenza has been found at a second egg farm in the Hawkesbury district.
- by Ben Cubby
400,000 dead chickens: Bird flu outbreak at Victorian farm spreads to second location
Thousands of chickens have been killed to stem the spread of a deadly strain of bird flu, but the disease has already been discovered at a second poultry farm in the state’s south-west.
- by Bianca Hall
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