Endangered species
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
Latest
Only the lonely: How regent honeyeaters are learning to sing again
The critically endangered birds made worldwide headlines when researchers discovered they were losing their songs. Now, there are signs efforts to teach them are working.
- by Bianca Hall
Analysis
Forestry
Why can’t Forestry find any gliders, when everyone else can?
It has all the ingredients of a Monty Python sketch: bureaucrats shuffling around a forest looking for nocturnal animals in the middle of the day.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Endangered greater glider found dead next to department’s felling site
Conservationists are furious after they warned the government about the presence of greater gliders and Leadbeater’s possums in trees identified for removal.
- by Bianca Hall
Inside Tanya Plibersek’s delay in fixing ‘broken’ environment laws
Within two years, the environment minister has gone from long-awaited reformer to a deep disappointment for green groups.
- by Mike Foley
Plibersek scales back environment reforms as coral bleaching goes global
The Albanese government is backing away from its pledge to lodge a comprehensive nature protection reform in parliament.
- by Mike Foley
‘Waves of destruction’: Last-ditch bid to stop $100 million Perth surf park
The Jandakot facility plans include a 2.2 hectare open-water lagoon for up to 84 surfers at a time and would be the biggest of its kind in the southern hemisphere.
- by Holly Thompson
Backlash over renewables rollout pushes projects into native species habitat
The Albanese government is caught between twin pledges to double renewable energy and to end Australia’s steady stream of native species extinctions.
- by Mike Foley
Sydneysiders are being paid to convert their properties to national parks
Landowners can earn up to $420 per hectare every year for land placed under a conservation agreement in NSW as Australia grapples with an extinction crisis.
- by Amber Schultz
Exclusive
State Parliament
Conservationists to clash with government at koala summit
Friday’s koala summit is set for a showdown between conservationists and the government over delays in creating the Great Koala National Park and the intensification of logging within the proposed boundaries.
- by Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Words can’t describe’: Puggle magic in Royal National Park after 50 years
Ten platypuses were released into Australia’s oldest national park, just south of Sydney, last May. The animals are thriving and at least one puggle was born last spring.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons