Biodiversity
How forests the size of tennis courts transform Australian cities
You’ve heard of tiny homes, but what about tiny forests? It’s a growing movement in Australia, based on Japanese ideas.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Revealed: how the environment in your suburb is improving or declining
Nationally, Australia’s environment was better than the average of the past 25 years. Look up our interactive map to see how your suburb or local government area fared.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Offensive’: Farmers and green groups lash Allan government over deer
With an estimated 1 million feral deer in Victoria causing untold damage to farms and the environment, farming and green groups have thrown down the gauntlet.
- Bianca Hall
- Exclusive
- National
Environmental offsets scheme rife with non-compliance
Government audits have raised questions over the integrity of the nation’s environmental offsets system.
- Ben Cubby
Leading rat poisons to face new restrictions, could be pulled from sale
Popular ranges of rat and mouse poisons which also kill owls and possums will be restricted for use within weeks and could be pulled from supermarket and hardware shelves within months.
- Bianca Hall
‘Alarming’ mystery fungus putting Australian reptiles at risk
A fungal infection found growing on Brisbane water dragons poses a risk to half the reptile species in Australia, researchers warn.
- Julius Dennis
This crisis kills 100 Australians a week. A solution might be in your pantry
New research has drawn a direct link between the biodiversity of the Australian bush, drug resistance and your favourite crumpet-topper.
- Angus Dalton
Stunning bat cave footage captures disease spread risk for first time
Researchers were astonished to film at least 14 different species, including monitor lizards, leopards and monkeys, visiting the cave to feast on potentially disease-ridden bats.
- Arthur Scott-Geddes
Fire ant eradication attempts may be helping the invaders, study finds
Mass pesticides could be killing the ants’ predators and wasting millions of dollars, according to a new study on the contentious national program.
- Julius Dennis
- Opinion
- Pets
Don’t bell Australia’s cats. Just make it illegal to own one
It is rightly illegal to own or import a fox, and yet we allow the breeding and selling of cats, which do about 10 times more damage.
- Antone Martinho-Truswell