Endangered species
Australia was stripped bare by feral animals. This sanctuary is reversing decades of damage
Like stepping inside a time machine, Newhaven in the Northern Territory offers a glimpse of Australia before Europeans arrived.
- by Nick O'Malley and Nick Moir
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Labor’s environment movement at odds with Plibersek over conservation
The Albanese government is being urged to create an independent overseer of development decisions. But Tanya Plibersek has instead committed to establishing a new agency.
- by Mike Foley
Plibersek’s green Wall Street plan stalls following criticism
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek called her scheme green Wall Street, but her plan to roll out biodiversity credits has been shelved until the end of the year.
- by Mike Foley
Earless dragon rediscovery like finding the Tasmanian tiger
A lizard described as the most endangered reptile in the world has been sighted in Victoria for the first time in 50 years by two early career ecologists.
- by Annika Smethurst
Bird with a wire: How to track one of Australia’s rarest species
Scientists are testing a new way to keep track of young orange bellied parrots, one of Australia’s most beloved (and difficult to locate) threatened species.
- by Miki Perkins
New app to help citizen scientists save koalas
Once abundant, koalas are now listed as an endangered species in Queensland.
- by Zach Hope
‘We have to act now’: States, feds unite to cut feral horse numbers in Alps
Environment ministers led by Tanya Plibersek have announced they would revive the Alps Ministerial Council, which last met under then-environment minister Peter Garrett in 2010.
- by Mike Foley
Environmentalists take Tanya Plibersek to court over coal mine assessments
The federal environment minister faces her first legal challenge over fossil fuels in a case attempting to force her to factor climate change into coal mine assessments.
- by Mike Foley
Bank finance helps clear swaths of threatened species habitat
Banks have been urged to change tack after new analysis found hundreds of thousands of hectares of threatened species habitat have been cleared with the help of their financing.
- by Mike Foley
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Environmental protection
‘Fate of koalas’ in Labor’s hands as it mulls 3000-home development near key habitat
The Environment Minister faces a major test over a controversial housing development criticised by agencies for its potential to impact the last chlamydia-free koala population left in Sydney.
- by Michael McGowan
Two in the bush: The quest to save Australia’s wildlife
Tanya Plibersek came into office promising no new extinctions. This small brown bird, native to a tiny island, could be the canary in her coalmine.
- by Miki Perkins