Environment
Conservation
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
Latest
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
Exclusive
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
Exclusive
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
Updated
Biodiversity
New species declared endangered on doorstep of Woodside mega-project
Another species being declared endangered on the doorstep of Woodside’s $30 billion Browse gas field has delivered a fresh blow amid approvals processes.
- by Emma Young
Analysis
Mining
Lies, damned lies and gold mines: What you need to know about the Blayney bunfight
The McPhillamys mine proposed by Regis Resources has become a political football since Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek decided to block a key part of the project on Indigenous heritage grounds.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
This miner claims Plibersek’s decision sets them back a decade. She says it’s ‘nonsense’
Regis Resources claims that its project in the NSW Central West has been delayed by up to a decade due to a federal decision to veto the location of its tailings dam.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Mike Foley
As it happened: Whale rescue as young humpback freed from fishing gear in Sydney Harbour
National parks staff have rescued a young humpback whale tangled in fishing tackle in Sydney Harbour this morning.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Whale leads rescuers on harbour chase, before slice of freedom
The humpback moved erratically and often quickly, lunging across Sydney Harbour’s coves and bays and then hugging the coastline. It was untangled from the fishing line with a few deft cuts.
- by Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Humpback whale entangled in fish trap in Sydney Harbour
Rescuers have been working to free the distressed juvenile whale. A GPS tracker has been attached to the animal to help find it at first light and resume the operation.
- by Riley Walter