Tracey Ferrier
Threatened species get $24 million funding boost
More than 70 native species at risk of extinction will get a helping hand under a $24 million funding boost. Environment Minister...
Minister won’t step in over alleged logging breaches
NSW’s environment minister has refused to intervene amid fears the government’s own Forestry Corporation could be illegally destroying the den trees of...
Forestry Corp admissions ward off criminal trial
The NSW Forestry Corporation has admitted destroying precious hollow-bearing habitat trees in an eleventh-hour move that avoids a criminal trial that would...
Fire ants set to wreak havoc in Murray-Darling Basin
Fire ants have been detected for the first time in the Murray Darling Basin, heightening fears for Australia’s largest and most complex...
Coral reefs hit by fourth global bleaching event
The world is in the grip of a fourth mass coral bleaching event caused by record-breaking ocean heat, scientists say. The declaration...
NSW govt faces fresh assault over native forest logging
A disturbing video describing confused koalas walking in circles and trying to climb stumps of logged trees is the centrepiece of a...
Ocean floor littered with plastic pollution: CSIRO
In 1997, Captain Charles Moore was returning from a trans-Pacific race when he made a shocking discovery in a remote part of...
Doubt cast on carbon credits for failing forest renewal
Carbon credit projects that claim to fight climate change by regrowing Australia’s forests are largely failing, new research has found. Ten academics...
Researcher warns of killing zones inside new koala park
NSW’s proposed koala park will be full of holes and won’t protect the state’s dwindling population from deadly logging threats, a new...
Great Barrier Reef in the grip of mass bleaching
The Great Barrier Reef is being devastated by its fifth mass bleaching event in eight years due to heat stress caused by...