The beach communities at Little Garie,Era and Burning Palms in Australia’s oldest national park are heritage listed. Their licences expire in March 2027,and the government is yet to decide what happens after that.
Essential Energy,the electricity distributor that covers 95 per cent of NSW,is switching to composite poles to make its network more resilient in bushfires.
Two new lookouts at North Head seem to conjure the whales,and there’s an eerie echo straight out of Finding Nemo.
NSW government is ramping up the removal of feral horses from the alpine environment with a controversial technique.
The NSW biodiversity outlook suggests the state is set lose nearly a quarter of all known plant and animal species in the next 100 years,and habitat loss from land clearing especially in the agricultural industry is the biggest cause.
Consultants have told the Queensland government the overuse of beaches and trails,particularly by four-wheel-drives,is a problem that needs to be addressed.
Brumby advocates remain opposed to culling and argue rehoming should be the future of feral horse management. Environmentalists say it’s “tinkering at the edges”.
The search has resumed for a young woman who fell from a waterfall in the Southern Highlands,south of Sydney.
Victoria’s environmental regulator has slapped notices on a local council to hand over records and bring in experts to test more parks after asbestos was found in mulch at several sites.
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.
The Victorian government’s logging agency will close on June 30 after years of financial losses and claims of mismanagement.