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Lake Eyre/Kati Thanda flooding as seen from the air in October.

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

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Land clearing at Cuttabri in north-western NSW in 2023. There is no suggestion the land clearing was illegal.

‘On extinction path’: Land clearing laws failing native species

An area of high-biodiversity land in NSW equivalent to four Sydney Harbours was cleared between 2016 and 2023, new research says.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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
Satellite images show the destruction in Wombat State Forest from the air.

Fresh logs piled high in Wombat State Forest revive concern about removing fallen trees

The forest will become a national park next year, but contractors are now removing more timber from the forest than before the ban on commercial native logging.

  • Bianca Hall
Environment Minister Murray Watt at the National Press Club on Thursday with his revised version of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

‘Big political price’: Labor steps up pressure on Greens to pass environment reform

Environment Minister Murray Watt says the Greens have already suffered for standing in the way of reform.

  • Nick Newling and Matthew Knott

Inside the 15-year mission to create the Great Koala National Park

It started with people power to protect koalas, gliders and trees and culminated in a NSW park with global ambition.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons, Janie Barrett and The Visual Stories Team
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Mark Graham

‘Death threat’, stalking, assault: Environmentalist’s alleged intimidation spree

A former councillor is accused of a campaign of intimidation during a long-running forestry dispute. Police claim he has “little regard” for court orders.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
Minister for the North Coast Janelle SaffinNorth Coast MP, Premier Chris Minns and Minister for the Environment Penny Sharpe at Bongil Bongil National Park on Sunday.

Three reasons Minns backed the full Great Koala National Park

The state government has revealed its thinking behind declaring a 176,000-hectare reserve on the state’s North Coast, as local industry and unions express their fury.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Yarriabini National Park is part of the proposed Great Koala National Park.

A promise kept: The risky creation of the Great Koala National Park

Advocates for the new national park on the Mid North Coast will be relieved that the full 176,000 hectares of state forest will be included, but the timber industry will be furious.

  • Nick O'Malley
An orphaned eight-month-old koala found wandering alone near South West Rocks on the southern edge of the Great Koala National Park. There are 12,000 koalas living in the state forests that will become national park.

‘Conservation outcomes don’t get much bigger than this’: Great Koala National Park announced

A moratorium on logging will commence on Monday, while final legislation to create the park will await a federal decision on whether the state can earn carbon credits for protecting forest.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons