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‘Parks only on paper’: Experts call on Plibersek to tighten marine protections
Prominent marine scientists are calling on the environment minister to provide greater protection to Australia’s ailing marine parks.
- by Miki Perkins
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Gen Z
‘A VIP back-stage pass to nature’: How young people are taking over Landcare
Landcare’s ageing volunteer base has been upended by thousands of young recruits, driven by feelings of helplessness from bushfires, drought and flood and a passion for ecological restoration.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
WIRES allegations of poor practices grow as carers speak out
When it comes to wildlife rescue, there are few organisations better known than WIRES. But it stands accused by some of the very people who are its bedrock – its volunteers – of causing harm.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Sharks
Testing the waters: the council that wants to ditch shark nets this summer
Beaches north of Sydney want to be the first to ditch shark nets after almost 100 years in favour of newer technology that will have less impact on marine animals.
- by Laura Chung
If they weren’t eerie enough, world’s spookiest moth flies dead-straight
Dr Myles Menz spent nights on end in a tiny aircraft, flying over the Swiss Alps, tracking a skull-patterned moth renowned as a harbinger of death.
- by Angus Dalton
Yay, a rat! No seriously, this is good news
A sphere of soft fluff when sitting still, and a lean shape-shifter as it runs along tiny tunnels, the broad-toothed rat has reappeared after 32 years.
- by Miki Perkins
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Forestry
Logging under way a month after greater glider declared endangered
Less than a month after the greater glider was declared endangered, logging is underway in a Victorian forest home to the rare possums.
- by Miki Perkins
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Wildlife
Failure to spend bushfire donations prompts WIRES board defection
The nation’s largest wildlife rescue organisation remains in conflict over how to best spend the ocean of donations received after the bushfires.
- by Nick O'Malley
Majority of animals caught in shark nets last year were threatened or protected species
More than 200 threatened or protected animals were caught in shark nets in the state over the past 12 months, renewing the calls from experts to ditch the devices.
- by Laura Chung
Extinction looms for two vulnerable Australian marine species
A combination of development and increased water runoff could prove disastrous for two once abundant Australian species.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Wildlife
Crackdown on environmental crimes as prosecutions up threefold in five years
NSW Environment Minister James Griffin has called for an urgent meeting of the nation’s environment ministers given the “sobering reading” in the State of the Environment report.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons