Environment
Conservation
Opinion
Australian economy
Nature positive? How about we stop being nature negative first
Commonwealth subsidies that harm biodiversity are estimated to be $26.3 billion a year. Removing or reducing these subsidies is an economic imperative – and required by international treaty.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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‘Refugees in their own country’: Starving cockies flood Perth Zoo vets amid food crisis
Perth’s zoo and black cockatoo rehab centres are struggling with emaciated cockatoos after an unprecedented climate event wiped out their remaining food source.
- by Emma Young
A ‘crazy’ new scheme to save world’s forests
What if stopping deforestation became a money spinner for developing countries?
- by Manuela Andreoni
Once healthy creeks in the Sydney catchment have become dead zones. Now scientists know why
New research provides scientific evidence that longwall mining is draining endangered upland swamps, eroding water quality and creating fire risk.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The forest survived devastating bushfires. Now it’s being bulldozed for holiday homes
Houses in the popular coastal village sell for up to $4 million, with vacant blocks going for almost $1 million.
- by Catherine Naylor
How 11-year-old Leah’s art ended up in a museum, and inspiring Ken Done
Ten children were inspired to draw or paint sharks or rays, endangered or at risk from overfishing. Then acclaimed artists were prompted to do their own works.
- by Julie Power
Race on to stop feral animal encroaching on Australian cities, trashing bushland
Tina Venables was keeping an eye out for kangaroos as she drove home from work last week. What she came across instead at the top of a hill left her shocked and shaken.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Catherine Naylor
Why native forest harvesting is the ‘zombie’ industry that won’t die
Commercial logging in native forests is the industry that refuses to end, with foresters extending into private land logging and selling firewood from national parks.
- by Bianca Hall
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Farming
‘Lost more than half our forest’: Why NSW is a global hotspot for deforestation
NSW landowners cleared land equivalent to almost twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory over the five years to 2023.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Opinion
Biodiversity
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
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National parks
The ‘time capsule’ being built in the middle of suburban Sydney
At a new national park nestled amid housing development in suburban Sydney, locally extinct animals are coming back one species at a time.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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