Race on to stop feral animal encroaching on Australian cities,trashing bushland

Race on to stop feral animal encroaching on Australian cities,trashing bushland

Tina Venables was keeping an eye out for kangaroos as she drove home from work last week. What she came across instead at the top of a hill left her shocked and shaken.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons andCatherine Naylor

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Define ‘tree’:The fight over Woolworths’ eco-beef pledge

Define ‘tree’:The fight over Woolworths’ eco-beef pledge

Woolworths wants to sell beef that hasn’t been produced on farms that take part in “deforestation” – but no one can agree on the definition.

  • byMike Foley
‘Lost more than half our forest’:Why NSW is a global hotspot for deforestation
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‘Lost more than half our forest’:Why NSW is a global hotspot for deforestation

NSW landowners cleared land equivalent to almost twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory over the five years to 2023.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
‘It’s beneficial for the sheep’:The surprising ‘win-win’ for solar panels on farms
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‘It’s beneficial for the sheep’:The surprising ‘win-win’ for solar panels on farms

Farmers are increasingly finding that hosting renewable projects not only provides guaranteed income,but can also offer agricultural benefits.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Bandicoot bandits taking a bite out of a multimillion-dollar business

Bandicoot bandits taking a bite out of a multimillion-dollar business

The unlikely gourmands are pilfering thousands of dollars of farmed black truffles a night,but a PhD student has been working to get them to change their ways.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Unpick the damage that’s been done’:Inside NSW plan to rein in rampant land-clearing

‘Unpick the damage that’s been done’:Inside NSW plan to rein in rampant land-clearing

The Minns government will tighten land-clearing laws loosened by the Coalition in 2016 and strengthen the contentious biodiversity offsets scheme.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
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‘There’s no benefit’:Call to cut back daylight saving in NSW

‘There’s no benefit’:Call to cut back daylight saving in NSW

NSW should knock two months off daylight saving and let it run from November to March because post-pandemic work habits have largely made it redundant,critics say.

  • byCatherine Naylor
Bone found at Balmoral Beach reveals origins of Australia’s apex predator

Bone found at Balmoral Beach reveals origins of Australia’s apex predator

When Sally Wasef sent a bone found in an exclusive Sydney enclave off for carbon testing,she thought it would be a couple of hundred years old. She was wrong.

  • byCatherine Naylor
How a flock of 12 sheep helped one man heal his ‘soul tiredness’

How a flock of 12 sheep helped one man heal his ‘soul tiredness’

One burnt-out writer,12 sheep,numerous lambs – and a renewed sense of the sheer wonder of life.

  • byJohn Connell
‘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
Gas made from cow manure could be new front in energy fight

Gas made from cow manure could be new front in energy fight

Advocates want to increase our production of biomethane to shore up supply,but environment groups say it’s not needed except for industrial uses.

  • byKieran Rooney