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Murrurundi Caravan Park operator Don Kemble said holidaymakers are cancelling amid fuel shortage fears.

Easter holidaymakers abandon road trips amid fuel shortage panic

Many caravan parks rely on Easter business to get through the quiet weeks, but this year some families are abandoning their road trips entirely.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Elias Visontay

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Some petrol stations in Sydney have run out of fuel.

Sydneysiders face weekend of travel uncertainty as petrol bowsers dry up, metro closes

As major events bring sports fans to the city, the ongoing fuel crisis and a total shutdown of the metro network present challenges to Sydneysiders on the move this weekend.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Emily Kaine
Mungo National Park in south-western NSW is one of the locations where commercial motorbike tours could be allowed.

Fees up and quad bikes in: New plans for NSW national parks

As a fight brews about the cost of supported camping in NSW national parks, an updated government document reveals commercial motorbike tours and quad biking could be allowed in hundreds of parks across the state.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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
Long-footed potoroo in Kosciuszko National Park.

Rare discovery in Kosciuszko National Park as NSW rejects Barilaro-era brumby bill

Ecologists found a critically endangered creature in footage from a camera set up to monitor feral cats. It is found only in one other location in NSW.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Millions of fish died near Menindee in outback NSW in March 2023.

‘Magic Pudding’ policies led to dying rivers, fish kills and dead platypuses. Is this the answer?

A new plan for 11 rivers in the Murray-Darling basin proposes limiting water extraction when river levels are low – as irrigators complain about “reform fatigue”.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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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
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