Duck hunting reloads despite a shorter season
A state report on duck season has conservationists at odds with hunters over the future of the recreational activity.
A state report on duck season has conservationists at odds with hunters over the future of the recreational activity.
Experts are bracing for the impact of another hot summer on the Great Barrier Reef after it suffered its worst coral bleaching of 2024.
After six years of assessment and hundreds of appeals against it, a massive Woodside gas project has been given WA environmental approval to operate until 2070.
Scientists have used an Australian-made coral restoration technique called Coral IVF to boost the outcome of the Great Barrier Reef's annual coral spawning.
Scientists are warning about the impacts of forever chemicals on animals after a CSIRO study showed alarming health affects on freshwater turtles.
A huge seagrass nursery has been built in central Queensland to supply food to endangered animals and remove pollutants from the Great Barrier Reef.
An orphaned baby southern cassowary has been successfully rehabilitated and released into the wild in north Queensland.
The world's monitored wildlife populations are down 73 per cent, with Australian species and the reef in the crosshairs, a major report warns.
Governments should stem the decline in emergency service volunteers as climate change threatens more and increasingly severe natural disasters, a report says.
Australia is looking at vaccinations for bird flu as environment ministers are called to a special meeting to discuss the threat to wildlife.
Pressure is mounting on the federal government to pour more money into bird flu preparations, amid warnings Australia's worst ecological disaster is looming.
A long-awaited extension on dingo control measures has been hailed as a win for farmers, but nobody seems happy with the result.
An end to native forest logging in NSW is among five options being put to stakeholders, with conservationists saying the move is a big deal for the environment.
A forested haven for species in danger of extinction will be turned into a housing estate after escaping the Black Summer bushfires.
NSW cleared an area more than 160 times the size of Sydney's CBD in a single year, new government figures show.
Federal independents are mounting a renewed push to get the environment minister to deal with state-based logging threats to endangered species.
Most sick and injured koalas that wind up in the care of vets are put down, a grim new analysis of data shows.
Tasmanian businesses have formed a new group to campaign for the salvation of an ancient fish, fearing its demise could cost them dearly.
A new report card has given Australia an F, for fail, for its efforts to bring the nation's endangered plants and animals back from the brink.
Another 20 species have been added to Australia's endangered list including imperilled plants and animals.
Environment groups are dismayed after the prime minister indicated he was open to stripping decision-making powers from Australia's new watchdog for nature.
More than 20 new coal projects in two states would have a devastating impact on the habitat of endangered koalas, climate and conservation groups warn.
The latest government cash splash for the Great Barrier Reef failed to mention a major report about its "very poor" prospects was about to drop.
First Nations people at the forefront of protecting country have gathered to share their land and sea management strategies for the first time in a decade.
A government audit has delivered a scathing assessment of the NSW environment department's efforts to save more than 1000 species from extinction.
Logging continues in a small patch of NSW where a rare frog lives despite the species being listed as endangered under both federal and state laws.
A conservation group is urging the Queensland government to protect land with greater glider habitat after logging near a site where the species has been seen.
Scientists say one of Australia's most valuable biodiversity hot spots is in danger of death by a thousand cuts as pastoralists clear the landscape unchecked.
Governments have welcomed the UN not listing the Great Barrier Reef as in danger, but new research shows water temperatures are at dangerously high levels.
Coral cover was up across the Great Barrier Reef before the treasured ecosystem suffered a devastating marine heatwave and two cyclones, scientists say.
A report by Greenpeace and the RSPCA has found 100 million native animals are displaced, hurt or killed in Queensland and NSW each year due to land clearing.