Environment
Conservation
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
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Marine life
Woodside and fishing lobby planned to dump structure with toxic chemicals near Ningaloo
A plan to use old Woodside equipment for an artificial reef near WA’s Ningaloo Reef in WA could have endangered the health of people who ate fish caught there.
- by Peter Milne
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Marine life
Scientists land deepest fish ever caught off Australia from 6.5km below
Deep-sea researchers used yabby traps and a $100,000 hook to catch sad-looking snailfish which started to melt after leaving the icy-cold depths of their home.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Editorial
Biodiversity
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
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
NSW government rules out coal exploration licences for two major regions
NSW Deputy Premier Paul Toole said coal exploration licences would not be able to proceed in the Ganguddy-Kelgoola region and Wollombi due to “environmental and cultural constraints”.
- by Laura Chung
Mines clear more trees than logging in WA’s threatened forests
Mining should cease in the Northern Jarrah Forest, conservationist groups say, after revealing 62 per cent of deforestation in the past decade was due to bauxite mining.
- 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