‘Free-range’ label to stay when chickens locked down to contain bird flu

‘Free-range’ label to stay when chickens locked down to contain bird flu

A new strain of bird flu has infected the rest of the world and could enter Australia at any moment. When it does,poultry producers will be on red alert.

  • byMike Foley

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Wildlife emergency:Australia prepares for bird flu onslaught

Wildlife emergency:Australia prepares for bird flu onslaught

A deadly strain of bird flu has swept the globe,and Australia is the last uninfected continent. Preparations for the carnage have just begun.

  • byMike Foley
Send me a sign:Councils say state too slow in shot-hole borer fight

Send me a sign:Councils say state too slow in shot-hole borer fight

Councils are terrified the borer will get into the hills and beyond to the Wheatbelt,saying this would be “both environmentally and financially catastrophic.”

  • byHamish Hastie
‘It’s just a matter of when’:Australia war-gaming deadly bird flu outbreak

‘It’s just a matter of when’:Australia war-gaming deadly bird flu outbreak

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.

  • byMike Foley
Star chef lifts the (pie) lid on Victoria’s feral animal problem

Star chef lifts the (pie) lid on Victoria’s feral animal problem

Award-winning chef Jo Barrett has cooked up a delicious way to rein in some of the state’s biggest environmental vandals.

  • byDani Valent
‘It can get worse’:The bite that burns like fire and killed a football hero

‘It can get worse’:The bite that burns like fire and killed a football hero

The bites cause a burning sensation lasting for about an hour,with an outbreak in Queensland already forcing closures of sporting fields and beaches.

  • byMike Foley
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Quarantine breach:Tree-killing beetle spreads to 145 suburbs including Perth hills

Quarantine breach:Tree-killing beetle spreads to 145 suburbs including Perth hills

The polyphagous shot-hole borer has spread to the Perth Hills with fears it could wreak havoc on national parks already suffering after a long,hot summer as well as orchards.

  • bySarah Brookes
WA scientists shut out from working on borer vaccine for dying trees

WA scientists shut out from working on borer vaccine for dying trees

A Perth-based plant pathology lab says it was stripped of a permit after it ran foul of the state government’s narrative.

  • bySarah Brookes
‘A potential wildlife massacre’:Eyes on the sky as virus wings its way towards Australia

‘A potential wildlife massacre’:Eyes on the sky as virus wings its way towards Australia

A virulent strain of bird flu is morphing as it spreads around the world and Australia looks to be its end destination.

  • byMike Foley
Black swans in ‘significant peril’ from bird flu

Black swans in ‘significant peril’ from bird flu

Australia’s poultry industry is grappling with an outbreak of H7 bird flu,but the H5N1 strain,which has spread to every other continent,could wipe out native species.

  • byMike Foley
‘I thought it was a horse’:Rogue pigs run amok across NSW

‘I thought it was a horse’:Rogue pigs run amok across NSW

Oscar Pearse was sitting on his tractor planting a crop of chickpeas when he looked over his shoulder and saw his nemeses approaching.

  • byCatherine Naylor