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Eucalyptus trees are a fire risk around the world.

The Australian species spreading all over the world and exacerbating bushfires

Eucalyptus trees are grown in plantations in nearly 100 countries and planted as city trees on every continent besides Antarctica.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Feral rabbits are a damaging pest.

Why Australia’s 200m wild rabbit population could soon explode

Scientists have battled the damaging feral pest for decades with world-leading efforts, but that is set to change.

  • Mike Foley
Work is wrapping up on the removal of 42 trees along the Mount Eliza escarpment in King’s Park.

Mount Eliza stripped bare as borer destruction forces major works in Kings Park

An infestation of the pest along the Mount Eliza escarpment has resulted in the removal or pruning of 42 trees, including large fig trees, with work wrapping up this week.

  • Hamish Hastie
Bird flu can spread quickly between species, which is a risk for the wildlife in Antarctica like these penguins and skuas.

Australia scans the frozen continent for early signs of deadly disease

Antarctic researchers are on high alert for a deadly strain of bird flu, which could hit the continent’s wildlife at any moment – and from there make its way to Australia.

  • Mike Foley
Shot-hole borer damage in a box maple tree.

Premier concedes ‘tough’ shot-hole borer battle ahead as Kings Park trail closes

The popular Lovers Walk at Kings Park will be permanently closed as biosecurity personnel embark on a second bout of tree removals at the Mount Eliza escarpment.

  • Jesinta Burton
Unknown vandals have drilled multiple holes into a hundred year old fig tree, poisoning it.

Fight to save Hunters Hill trees after ‘calculated act of vandalism’

Injected with poison, razed and drilled with multiple holes. Now the latest in an alleged string of “calculated” attacks against Sydney’s trees has left residents fuming.

  • Cindy Yin
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Agriculture minister Jackie Jarvis launched the new Canning Vale facility on Saturday.

Fight against WA’s shot-hole borer given $97 million boost with new biosecurity headquarters

On Saturday Agriculture and Food Minister Jackie Jarvis unveiled a new state-of-the-art headquarters for WA’s biosecurity operations, stepping up the war against one of the most destructive pests to breach Australia’s strict biosecurity controls.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Fire ants pose a huge threat to outdoor living, tourism, agriculture and native ecosystems.

‘Downright dangerous’: National body responds to claims officers ‘planted fire ants’

In a statement, the National Fire Ant Eradication Program called the allegations “false and unfounded”.

  • Courtney Kruk
Shothole borer WA incident controller David Griffiths and WA chief plant biosecurity officer Vincent Lanoiselet.

Victims pile up in Perth’s shot-hole borer war. But is there another way?

The polyphagous shot-hole borer is about the size of a sesame seed, but if it finds a tree it likes it can rapidly multiply, growing a population of thousands in a short time.

  • Hamish Hastie
The consumer watchdog is reassuring free range egg and chicken meat producers that they can retain their marketing during lockdown orders.

‘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.

  • Mike Foley

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