Within two years,the environment minister has gone from long-awaited reformer to a deep disappointment for green groups.
The Albanese government is backing away from its pledge to lodge a comprehensive nature protection reform in parliament.
The Jandakot facility plans include a 2.2 hectare open-water lagoon for up to 84 surfers at a time and would be the biggest of its kind in the southern hemisphere.
The Albanese government is caught between twin pledges to double renewable energy and to end Australia’s steady stream of native species extinctions.
Landowners can earn up to $420 per hectare every year for land placed under a conservation agreement in NSW as Australia grapples with an extinction crisis.
Friday’s koala summit is set for a showdown between conservationists and the government over delays in creating the Great Koala National Park and the intensification of logging within the proposed boundaries.
Ten platypuses were released into Australia’s oldest national park,just south of Sydney,last May. The animals are thriving and at least one puggle was born last spring.
A tiny lizard rediscovered in Melbourne’s west has delayed planning in growth areas,sending authorities scrambling.
Fruit bats are causing mayhem across Sydney,but should local councils cut down trees or using sound devices to drive them away?
Hundreds of endangered southern brown bandicoots live behind a predator-proof fence on Melbourne’s south-eastern fringe. A proposed development nearby could push the marsupial closer to extinction.
The Spalding’s Rocket Frog has been recorded by one of the world’s largest citizen science projects,which has now hit one million amphibians and counting.