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Eli Creek on K’gari is a victim of its own popularity.

Just how eco-friendly is Queensland’s ecotourism plan?

Encouraging more low-impact, nature-based tourism is an excellent proposition. But there’s an oxymoron at the heart of the latest plan.

  • Courtney Kruk

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Michael Atkinson aka Outback Mike is a former airforce pilot and is now an adventurer film maker and camping influencer on social media

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.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Leadbeater’s possums are critically endangered. Their population just grew by one.

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.

  • Bianca Hall and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe inspecting recovery from damage caused by wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park.

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.

  • Nick O'Malley
A native forest logging site in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest that is part of the assessment area for the Great Koala National Park.

MPs call for state government to end its ‘fiscally irrational’ logging

After a government-owned logging company suffered another loss in its native forest operations, crossbenchers again call for the logging to end.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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The koala is an endangered species in NSW, Queensland and the ACT.

Koalas and taxpayers betrayed by NSW old-growth forest destruction

NSW taxpayers are bankrolling the destruction of our heritage, further endangering the existence of our beloved koalas. It’s an environmental disaster.

  • Darleen Bungey
Welcome to Katoomba, the town that time forgot.

Millions of visitors drive through this town every year. Some tell them to skip it

The gateway to one of the state’s top tourist attractions has become a “blighted, deteriorating town”.

  • Julie Power
Photos from coral bleaching along the Ningaloo coast in February.

Unprecedented heatwave causes mass bleaching of Ningaloo, Kimberley reefs

Environment Minister Matthew Swinbourn raised the issue in parliament, stating the scale and duration of a marine heatwave had led to mass bleaching.

  • Holly Thompson
A humpback whale breaching in Sydney Harbour in a previous year.

Why the whale watching season started early this year

The beginning of May also marked the official start of the humpback whale migration from Antarctica to warmer waters off NSW and Queensland. But the first sightings were six weeks ago.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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