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Australian salmon should be avoided, according to sustainability experts.

Revealed: How salmon politics trumped the environment

A freedom-of-information release reveals formal advice that salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour should cease while approval is reconsidered under federal environmental laws. The government backed the industry instead.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Inside or out? What to do with Australia’s cats?

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
Lemuroid ringtail possums are now listed as critically endangered.

Dozens more plants and animals added to Australia’s endangered lists

The list now includes a charismatic possum, a flightless fly and a glossy skink.

  • Bianca Hall
A koala in the Great Koala National Park.

‘Great big holes’ undermine Minns government’s key park promise

A decision to exclude plantations from the future Great Koala National Park could threaten the long-term survival of koalas and a possible World Heritage listing, a new report warns.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Unprocessed long-spined sea urchins.

Can we eat our way out of this thorny problem? This team thinks so

A rapid spread of millions of sea urchins is threatening vital kelp forests, which remove pollutants from water.

  • Bianca Hall
A koala spotted on Ormiston College campus.

Private school plan to cut down koala habitat doesn’t stack up, council says

Ormiston College in the Redlands has asked Jarrod Bleijie for special permission to demolish koala habitat to expand the school.

  • Julius Dennis
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A red goshawk female with chicks in its nest on Dambimangari Country in WA’s north.

‘It was like a dream’: How Australia’s rarest bird of prey was found in WA’s north

The hunt for the red goshawk has delivered an early Christmas gift.

  • Victoria Laurie
A koala photographed last month on French Island, in an almost-denuded tree.

How do you save a starving koala?

The difficulty of moving koalas is again in focus following soaring numbers on French Island in Victoria, and deaths of translocated animals in NSW.

  • Bianca Hall
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - 2021/09/19: Cane Toad (Rhinella marina) in a shallow pond in boondall wetlands. (Photo by Joshua Prieto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

One of Australia’s worst pests is on the march to the Pilbara. But we have a ‘unique’ chance to stop them

A new study predicts that without containment efforts, cane toads will infest up to 75 per cent of the Pilbara within three decades.

  • Holly Thompson
The gastric brooding frog, which gave birth to live froglets out of its mouth, went extinct shortly after it was discovered.

The premier, the poet and the fight to save a frog

It’s a story almost too preposterous to believe, starring a group of uni students, an infamous state premier, a legendary Australian poet and an extinct frog that gave birth by vomiting its young.

  • Andrew Stafford