New early detection and rapid bushfire suppression tech is being rolled out across the world and along Australia’s east coast. But it seems WA must wait a while.
The West Australian government,and sections of our media,are presenting a false picture of what WA voters want to the rest of the country.
These spectacular little spiders are found in only one spot:in the pathway of a housing estate that received its environmental approval decades ago.
When it comes to weed removal,they’re literally the GOAT. Now scientists hope they may spread native vegetation too.
Australia is untouched by a virus that has devastated wildlife around the planet,but the spring migration from Antarctica is beginning,and with it comes an extinction-level threat for native birds and mammals.
Another species being declared endangered on the doorstep of Woodside’s $30 billion Browse gas field has delivered a fresh blow amid approvals processes.
WA Premier Roger Cook has welcomed news the federal government is willing to scale back stalled environment reforms which have drawn the ire of the state’s miners.
The number of pet cats per household could be capped as Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek prepares a scheme to protect wildlife from domestic and feral felines.
The Greens have slammed the government’s proposed reforms and are refusing to back a new Environment Protection Agency.
Alcoa is storing enough caustic bauxite residue to fill Optus Stadium more than 350 times in areas south of Perth that have failed to be certified as stable.
The burden of enforcing special arrangements to allow Alcoa to keep mining bauxite has forced WA’s environment regulator to severely cut its efforts to protect nature throughout the rest of the state.