‘Biodiversity for future generations’:Two new national parks for NSW

‘Biodiversity for future generations’:Two new national parks for NSW

Environment Minister Matt Kean will on Tuesday announce the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has acquired two properties in NSW that will be given national parks status.

  • byTim Barlass

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Bees need hives alive in national parks as weather warms and dries

Bees need hives alive in national parks as weather warms and dries

Qld’s drying,warming climate means bees need help to pollinate our food. As a result,apiarists will be allowed to work in flower-dense national parks for 20 more years.

  • byTony Moore
Brumbies do not belong in the Snowy Mountains but plan is a good compromise

Brumbies do not belong in the Snowy Mountains but plan is a good compromise

Brumbies trample the delicate ecosystem of the Australian high country into worthless mud heaps. It’s like the Great Barrier Reef coral being devoured by an imported European fish – and everyone cheering for the fish.

  • byAnthony Sharwood
Kakadu report delayed by lockdowns after relationship fracture
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Kakadu report delayed by lockdowns after relationship fracture

Environment Minister Sussan Ley has confirmed a report assessing the joint management model of Kakadu National Park has been delayed until the end of 2021.

  • byCameron Gooley
Is Kosciuszko National Park Australia’s last wilderness outpost?

Is Kosciuszko National Park Australia’s last wilderness outpost?

A new master plan for the region will come at a very high environmental cost – one critic likens it to a war on the national park.

  • byTim Barlass
Barilaro’s ‘brumby bill’ has been a catastrophe for the high country

Barilaro’s ‘brumby bill’ has been a catastrophe for the high country

Despite the many warnings,political bloody-mindedness over the culling of feral horses in the Kosciuszko National Park has created an environmental disaster.

  • byClive Hamilton
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‘Kosciuszko is in trouble’:call for federal intervention on feral horses

‘Kosciuszko is in trouble’:call for federal intervention on feral horses

NSW’s failure to reduce soaring feral horse numbers in Kosciuszko National Park is sparking calls for urgent intervention from the federal government.

  • byMike Foley
Historic Boydtown set to be renamed due to ‘blackbirding’ links
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Historic Boydtown set to be renamed due to ‘blackbirding’ links

The owners of historic Boydtown near Eden on the NSW South Coast are planning to change its name because of associations with the slave-trader Ben Boyd.

  • byTim Barlass
Cape to Cape hikers could cop new fee to walk popular track
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Cape to Cape hikers could cop new fee to walk popular track

A pre-feasibility study prepared for Tourism WA has suggested holding off on building glamping accommodation on the track but has suggested new walker fees.

  • byPeter de Kruijff
'We've got to bring those wallabies back':how a species was saved

'We've got to bring those wallabies back':how a species was saved

An island,a wrongly identified skin and an international treasure hunt:the rescue of the parma wallaby from the brink of extinction.

  • byHarriet Alexander
Why Botswana wants Angola's exiled elephants to return home

Why Botswana wants Angola's exiled elephants to return home

Botswana may have found a solution to its elephant overpopulation:it's going to encourage some of them to emigrate.

  • byMbongeni Mguni