Ray of hope for beach shack owners in the Royal National Park
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Ray of hope for beach shack owners in the Royal National Park

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.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons

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Political fight sparks as electricity network axes timber power poles

Political fight sparks as electricity network axes timber power poles

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.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
The spot in Sydney where if you sing to whales,they sing back
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The spot in Sydney where if you sing to whales,they sing back

Two new lookouts at North Head seem to conjure the whales,and there’s an eerie echo straight out of Finding Nemo.

  • byJulie Power
Aerial shooting culls thousands of horses in Kosciuszko

Aerial shooting culls thousands of horses in Kosciuszko

NSW government is ramping up the removal of feral horses from the alpine environment with a controversial technique.

  • byMike Foley
Demand for steak fuelling deforestation and extinction in NSW

Demand for steak fuelling deforestation and extinction in NSW

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.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Visitor caps,lower speed limits on agenda for popular national parks

Visitor caps,lower speed limits on agenda for popular national parks

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.

  • bySean Parnell
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Cassandra adopted a brumby. What happens when you rehome a feral horse?
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Cassandra adopted a brumby. What happens when you rehome a feral horse?

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”.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Search for missing bushwalker enters second day

Search for missing bushwalker enters second day

The search has resumed for a young woman who fell from a waterfall in the Southern Highlands,south of Sydney.

  • byAngus Thomson
Council ordered to hand over records,test parks as more potential asbestos found

Council ordered to hand over records,test parks as more potential asbestos found

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.

  • bySherryn Groch
‘Words can’t describe’:Puggle magic in Royal National Park after 50 years

‘Words can’t describe’:Puggle magic in Royal National Park after 50 years

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.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Not a great legacy’:Troubled state-owned VicForests to close within months

‘Not a great legacy’:Troubled state-owned VicForests to close within months

The Victorian government’s logging agency will close on June 30 after years of financial losses and claims of mismanagement.

  • byBianca Hall