Tag: conservation
Environment Minister Sussan Ley is in a tearing hurry to embrace nature law reform – and that’s a worry
Graeme Samuel, left and Environment Minister Sussan Ley.
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The Morrison government on Monday released a long-awaited interim review into Australia’s federal environment law. The...
Conservation scientists are grieving after the bushfires – but we must not give up
Glossy black cockatoo populations on Kangaroo Island have been
decimated. But a few precious survivors remain. Flickr
That a billion animals may die as a result of...
Forest thinning is controversial, but it shouldn’t be ruled out for managing bushfires
Prescribed burning in thinned silver top ash forest. Forest thinning
should be one way we tackle fire management and forest resilience,
but we need...
A report claims koalas are ‘functionally extinct’ – but what does that mean?
Koalas are facing serious threats in the wild.
Mathias Appel/Flickr
Today the Australian Koala Foundation announced they believe “there are no more than 80,000...
From disaster planning to conservation: mobile phones as a new tracking tool
Mobile phones can be used as human tracking devices
We can learn a lot about things by studying how they move through the world...