Tracey Ferrier
Mixed response to consultation on rewrite of environment laws
There’s no sign yet that Australia’s new environment laws will account for the threat climate change poses to nature, a conservation group...
Bank lending not helping Australia’s ailing environment
More than a fifth of the loans issued by Australian banks have gone to high-risk sectors that degrade and destroy nature, a...
High Country brumbies living on borrowed time if NSW accepts panel’s call for aerial culling
Feral horses pose an immediate extinction risk to native species in the Australian Alps and NSW should allow them to be shot...
Court dismisses activists’ case against Plibersek
Australia’s Environment Minister doesn’t have to take action to stop the damage fossil fuel projects will inflict on natural wonders like the...
Few Aussies grasp serious, urgent climate threat
Most Australians don’t see climate change as an extremely serious problem right now, despite warnings this decade is critical in the fight...
Australia doing a poor job of protecting unique plants
Australia has the world’s highest proportion of unique plants but is doing a poor job of working out if they’re in danger,...
Major new threat to Great Barrier Reef identified
Scientists have identified a major new threat to the Great Barrier Reef – invisible groundwater flows delivering nutrients at harmful levels. It’s...
NSW logging industry’s greater glider survey was done when the nocturnal animals were asleep
The Forestry Corporation searched a NSW forest for greater gliders during the day, when the endangered animals would have been asleep. The...
Vaping held responsible for toxic waste and even landfill fires
The millions of Australians who vape are leaving the nation with a toxic mountain of waste and so far there’s no national...
Dugongs in steady decline along Great Barrier Reef
Dugong populations are shrinking along a vast stretch of the Great Barrier Reef and it’s been happening for almost 20 years, scientists...