Environment
Conservation
Inside the shed where tanks of frogs are on a mission to save their species
These corroboree frogs – no bigger than 3 centimetres – are critically endangered, battling disease, invasive species, a changing environment and natural disasters. This shed is hoping to change that.
- by Laura Chung
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Sydney councils
Surge in tree vandalism shows penalties are not severe enough
Sydney’s holy grail of real estate, the des res with a view, appears to be driving unprecedented destruction of trees around the city but especially in the leafier suburbs.
- The Herald's View
The precious seahorses released back into Sydney’s waters
Sydney Aquarium’s Patrick Noble had something a little different in his hands as he walked towards Clontarf Reserve on Sydney’s northern beaches – four plastic bags carrying endangered White’s Seahorses.
- by Amelia Barter and Harriette Maguire
Where have all the Christmas beetles gone?
There are 36 species of Christmas beetles found only in Australia, 21 of which are in NSW. But we might be losing them faster than we can count.
- by Laura Chung
Chocolate boxes, chip tubes and birthday gifts with an illegal animal twist
It might look like an innocent postal package containing a birthday card and a can of potato chips. But inside the tube, stuffed in a sock, is a native Australian lizard.
- by Laura Chung
How Kirsha Kaechele brought the logging industry’s most powerful players together
Everyone is curious about Mona founder David Walsh and his American wife Kirsha Kaechele, an artist and curator. As word got out that she was planning a conference about the logging industry, people were immediately intrigued.
- by Nick O'Malley
Aerial culling of Kosciuszko feral horses labelled a success
Just months after the NSW government approved the aerial shooting of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park, figures suggest it is working.
- by Laura Chung
State ramps up effort to stop venomous fire ants in their tracks
Detection dogs, chemical baits and a biosecurity control zone are all being rolled out in Northern NSW to stop fire ants from spreading further into the state.Â
- by Laura Chung
Volunteers work around the clock to protect eggs of pied oystercatcher
The beach-nesting birds typically lay their eggs on the top of small mounds and take five weeks to hatch, leaving them vulnerable to being trampled on or eaten.
- by Laura Chung
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Environmental protection
How wife of Mona founder brought together combatants of Tasmania’s forest wars
Curator and artist Kirsha Kaechele has organised a forestry congress at the Museum of Old and New Art, with unlikely guests including loggers, activists and scientists.
- by Nick O'Malley