Environment
Conservation
Australian surfers win David v Goliath battle against Chinese company in Fiji
The developers were accused of causing extensive environmental damage to Fiji’s Malolo Island, intending to build a large resort on the site.
- by Ben Weir
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Wildlife
5.2-metre, 64-kilogram python captured and killed in Florida park
Researchers have captured and killed the largest Burmese python to be removed from Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.
- by Katie Mettler
Veganism
Animal activists invade abattoirs, stop traffic in nationwide wave of protests
Animal activists have brought peak-hour traffic to a standstill, invaded abattoirs and rescued three sheep in a wave of early-morning protests across three states.
- by Latika Bourke
Animal rights
'Often seems drugged': protest about kangaroo found in poor condition in US petting zoo
A kangaroo found in poor condition on the east coast of the United States has sparked a protest.
- by Helen Pitt
State Parliament
Unlikely alliance aims to protect, promote Garden of Stone's '3000 sisters'
Environmental groups and an underground coal miner has formed to promote tourism to the beautiful rock formations of the Gardens of Stone near Lithgow.
- by Peter Hannam
Environmental protection
'Sat on its hands': New environment minister has a long to-do list
The Berejiklian government's new planning cluster has inherited a range of unfinished work on the environment from climate action to marine parks, some of it delayed for as long as a decade.
- by Peter Hannam
Environmental protection
'Vandals': NSW environment staff fear for jobs as office dissolves
The Berejiklian government has sought to reassure staff and the public that the dissolution of the Office of Environment and Heritage won't compromise the independence and services provided it.
- by Peter Hannam
Exclusive
Wildlife
Deadbeat dad replaced by feather duster as zoo rescues orphaned chicks
It's Australia's most important bird with fewer than 1000 left in the wild. So zookeepers were 'over the moon' when their plains-wanderer population doubled this week.
- by Joe Hinchliffe
Good Weekend
Why are insects dying in such numbers?
It's been dubbed the bugalypse – study after study rolling in from countries across the globe pointing to dramatic declines in insect populations.
- by Greg Callaghan
NSW Votes
Factories planned for a section of 'the lungs of Sydney's west'
A region of western Sydney set aside 15 years ago by former Labor premier Bob Carr as permanent parkland is to be turned into a factory site.
- by Peter Hannam