Tag: endangered species
A penguin farm in the Australian desert: a thought experiment that reveals the flaws our in environment laws
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Imagine this fictitious scenario. The federal environment minister announces government approval for a large-scale penguin farm near Alice Springs. It will produce 300,000...
Find out what threatened plants and animals live in your electorate (and what your MP can do about it)
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More than 1,800 Australian plants and animals are considered at-risk of extinction, and yet protecting threatened species is almost entirely absent from the current election...
Fail: our report card on the government’s handling of Australia’s extinction crisis
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Australia is losing more biodiversity than any other developed nation. Already this year the charismatic and once abundant gang gang cockatoo has been added to...
National parks are not enough – we need landholders to protect threatened species on their property
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Over the last decade, the area protected for nature in Australia has shot up by almost half. Our national reserve system now covers 20% of...
The ‘Ringo Starr’ of birds is now endangered – here’s how we can still save our drum-playing palm cockatoos
Palm cockatoo breeding pair at the nesting hollow. Female on left, male on the right. Christina N. Zdenek
Australia’s largest parrot, the palm cockatoo,...
A report claims koalas are ‘functionally extinct’ – but what does that mean?
Koalas are facing serious threats in the wild.
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Today the Australian Koala Foundation announced they believe “there are no more than 80,000...