‘This activity is a real threat’:MPs piling on pressure over state’s koala park promise
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Chris Minns

‘This activity is a real threat’:MPs piling on pressure over state’s koala park promise

Premier Chris Minns is being urged to immediately end logging inside the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park.

  • byNick O'Malley

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Total removal of feral horses planned for some national parks
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Total removal of feral horses planned for some national parks

In Kosciuszko National Park,the government must by law retain 3000 brumbies. But in other national parks in NSW and Victoria,the goal is zero feral horses.

  • byBianca Hall andCaitlin Fitzsimmons
The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved in
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The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved in

Forests on the North Coast are earmarked for a national park to protect “the best patch of koala habitat in the world”,but the area is still being logged in epic proportions.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Licence to kill:Millions of Australian native animals legally slaughtered
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Licence to kill:Millions of Australian native animals legally slaughtered

Australians took out licences to kill more than 1.2 million native animals and birds last year alone,with kangaroos and wallabies comprising almost half the animals killed.

  • byBianca Hall
‘Nobody wants to do this’:the tough calls to mitigate climate change

‘Nobody wants to do this’:the tough calls to mitigate climate change

Is business as usual possible in a climate crisis? No,but not all is lost,says Parks Victoria’s chief scientist.

  • byBianca Hall
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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Man found after ‘walking through the night’ in freezing conditions near Thredbo
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Man found after ‘walking through the night’ in freezing conditions near Thredbo

Police say a member of the public came upon 61-year-old Bing Wei on The Alpine Way at Thredbo just before 9am,and alerted searchers.

  • byCatherine Naylor
The ‘time capsule’ being built in the middle of suburban Sydney

The ‘time capsule’ being built in the middle of suburban Sydney

At a new national park nestled amid housing development in suburban Sydney,locally extinct animals are coming back one species at a time.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Four-year-old girl flown to hospital following dingo attack on K’gari

Four-year-old girl flown to hospital following dingo attack on K’gari

The girl was with a fishing group when she was grabbed around the chest area,causing lacerations,bruising and a puncture wound.

  • byCourtney Kruk
Are our selfies killing WA’s best assets? Scientists say yes

Are our selfies killing WA’s best assets? Scientists say yes

A desperate attempt is under way to protect rare species from social media-driven nature tourism and influencer culture.

  • byClaire Ottaviano
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