A NEW report by Worldwide Fund for Nature-Australia reveals the environmental letdowns that have resulted from Australia’s past inabilities to meet land protection targets. This report comes in time for a new landmark pact to protect at least 30 percent of the…
In line with Koala month this September, conservators are ramping up their campaigns to protect our national treasure. In 2012, the Federal Environmental Minister listed Koala populations in Queensland, New South Whales and Canberra as ‘vulnerable’. Since then, the 2019-2020 bushfires have…
On a tiny island in the South Pacific, the Phillip Island centipede or ‘Cormocephalus coynei’ stalks through the undergrowth on humid nights. Growing up to almost a foot in length the diet of the exclusively nocturnal arthropod varies wildly, using two pincer-like…
THE World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia recently announced grants of $1.32 million for nine projects which will escalate its Regeneration Australia campaign designed to help wildlife survive and recover from the 2019-2020 bushfires. The injection of funding will support the ongoing development…
WWF-Australia has welcomed a bill to establish a Commonwealth Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to finally enforce Australia’s nature laws. Independent MP Andrew Wilkie introduced the bill into the lower house on the morning of Monday 23 March. It calls for the creation…
A recent report from the World Wide Fund for Nature names eastern Australia among 24 global deforestation fronts – the only developed nation on the list. In 2015, WWF’s Saving Forests at Risk analysis identified 11 global deforestation fronts including eastern Australia. In WWF’s new report Deforestation…
The much-loved marsupial has moved a step closer to an endangered listing on the east coast, after a nomination by conservation groups who welcomed the increased attention on the plight of the species. Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has added the combined…
Queensland has raced into first place on WWF-Australia’s new single-use plastics scorecard with the introduction of their single-use plastic bill into parliament today, while Victoria, Tasmania and Northern Territory continue to lag behind in tackling plastic pollution.…
Destruction of greater glider habitat increased by 52% in New South Wales and Queensland after the species was listed as vulnerable to extinction, a report by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has revealed.…
In a story of hope, special detection dogs have found seven koalas alive amid burnt out forest at Maryvale on Queensland’s Southern Downs, and evidence of even more survivors.…
