Category: Biodiversity

Biodiversity

Making conservation pay

Protecting properties through private conservation is reaping rewards for New South Wales farmers while helping to save species.

Biodiversity

Celebrating Australia’s merry, once-misunderstood native mistletoe

Once considered a ‘nasty’ parasite, Australia’s mistletoe is now hailed as a solution to biodiversity loss.

Biodiversity

OPINION: Conservation coup or cop-out?

“Are Australia’s new nature laws a conservation coup or cop-out?,” asks Professor of Environmental Management, Martine Maron.

Biodiversity

Rare carnivorous plant found near Perth

Conservationists have uncovered a large patch of insect-trapping sundews, one of Western Australia’s rarest carnivorous plants, just an hour outside of Perth.

Biodiversity

Reforms passed to Australia’s decades-old nature laws

Long-sought environmental law reform is finally here. But will the compromise deal actually protect nature?

Biodiversity

Making younger trees age faster to create homes for wildlife

… and it can be done without chainsaws.

Biodiversity

Intrepid rangers carry wallabies in backpacks to new home

Some very rare marsupial cargo has leapt into a new life in a remote rocky gorge in eastern Victoria.

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Australia’s first koala national park to go ahead in NSW

Australian conservationists are celebrating one of their biggest wins ever, after the NSW Government announced yesterday that a much-anticipated Great Koala National Park (GKNP) on the New South Wales Mid North Coast will finally go ahead.

Biodiversity

Let there be night

Artificial light has illuminated and reshaped our world after dark – but at what cost?

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Rakali vs. black rat: Australian native rodent fights back

Footage has provided Sydney researchers with the first evidence of a native rakali attacking a black rat – an introduced and problematic species.