“The wilderness is now largely dominated by feral animals. When I was a child you never saw a horse.”
The limestone stacks of the Twelve Apostles,which jut out from Victoria’s cold surf,remain among Victoria’s most-popular tourist attractions:2.8 million people take the twisting tarmac pilgrimage to visit them every year.
Plans to turn heritage-listed cottages on Barrenjoey Head into short-stay accommodation have provoked opposition from some residents.
While strolling along the beach Thomas Schlacher looked up,and what he saw helped change the way scientists view our long stretches of sand.
Shark Beach at Nielsen Park is likely to stay closed beyond April with the site abandoned amid an engineering dispute between National Parks and the contractor.
Charlotte Pass resort has been fined for allowing millions of litres of improperly treated sewage effluent to flow into nearby waterways in Kosciuszko National Park.
On the city’s fringes,developers are clearing land for urban sprawl – even bushland recognised as being “critical to the survival” of endangered wildlife.
“The excitement went from zero to 100”:The rare white-bellied whipbird has been recorded in the state for the first time in decades.
The Queensland government has backtracked on plans to allow private cabins to be built in environmentally sensitive areas of a popular national park.
Scientists in southern NSW are searching for evidence of a near-extinct animal by collecting the excrement of its predators,as the state government builds safe havens to protect more than 50 threatened species from feral animals such as foxes and cats.
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean says he is now convinced the Warragamba Dam wall needs to be raised just one year after warning the project was economically unviable.