Biodiversity
Labor seeks green vote with environment funding package
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has promised $195 million for the Great Barrier Reef and $225 million for threatened species in a mix of new and previously announced funding.
- by Mike Foley and Rachel Clun
Latest
Conservation group investigated over alleged collection of rats from national park
National Wildlife Parks Service has launched an investigation into conservation group Aussie Ark after it allegedly set up traps to capture broad-toothed rats in the Barrington Tops National Park without the appropriate authority.
- by Laura Chung
Minister backs Western Port woodland clearance to expand sand mine
The Andrews government has given the green light to clearing native bushland to make way for the controversial extension of a sand mine near Western Port.
- by Miki Perkins
Mountain bike ban proposed for Perth’s ‘Kings Park of the south’
Staff at the City of Cockburn have recommended elected members at Thursday night’s council meeting vote to close and remove illegal tracks in Manning Park.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Editorial
Opinion
Urgent action needed to protect our threatened biodiversity
More than 1900 Australian animals, plants and ecological communities are at risk of becoming extinct. We can and we must do more.
- The Herald's View
Native species are in crisis, but you wouldn’t know it from the election campaign
Australia’s unique environment and biodiversity is facing an extinction crisis, but politicians are barely mentioning it. Why?
- by Miki Perkins
Endangered oak’s secret home beneath a NSW volcano its only hope of survival
Tucked away on the southern side of an ancient volcano in northern NSW is a unique rainforest that will house 20 rare seedlings of a tree, but whether they will survive is in the hands of scientists.
- by Laura Chung
Numbat stripes reveal endangered population is twice as big as we thought
A UWA PhD student has developed a survey technique indicating the state’s endangered numbat population is twice as big as previously thought. But remaining habitats do not have the same protection levels, prompting a community call to boost national park coverage.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Trawlers killing Pilbara’s bottlenose dolphins at ‘unsustainable rates’
Do you routinely buy emperor, snapper, trevally, cod or grouper at the supermarket? The cost could be much higher than you realise, this new study suggests.
- by Holly Thompson
Critically endangered possums to lose home to $1 billion WA road
The 72 possums will not be physically trapped and moved but ‘shepherded’ into neighbouring bushland for the tourist route that will likely be their death knell.
- by Peter de Kruijff
One in five reptile species globally are under the threat of extinction
A study has found that 30 per cent of forest-dwelling reptiles are at risk of extinction, compared with 14 per cent of reptiles in arid habitats.
- by Laura Chung and Angus Dalton