Environmental protection
Visitor caps, lower speed limits on agenda for popular national parks
Consultants have told the Queensland government the overuse of beaches and trails, particularly by four-wheel-drives, is a problem that needs to be addressed.
- by Sean Parnell
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To save the Amazon, a project is making sure cattle farmers earn another living
The stakes are high. About one-fifth of what some call “the lungs of the world” is already gone. Now Microsoft and other corporations are getting involved.
- by Manuela Andreoni
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Marine life
Major WA tourism drawcard still in the lurch as businesses consider closing shop
There is still no plan for a new Penguin Island discovery centre more than a year on from a decision to stop an on-island build.
- by Holly Thompson
Developer sells stunning land for $100m. The buyer will never build a thing
Not far from where the Andes Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean, a vast swath of pristine wilderness is changing hands under the most unusual circumstances.
- by David Gelles
‘Massive surveillance failure’: Fire ant infestation sparks fear of undetected spread
More than 100 nests of potentially deadly fire ants have been discovered on Defence land in the Murray Darling river system.
- by Mike Foley
Is this the first animal to become extinct on Tanya Plibersek’s watch?
The Yalmy galaxias – a fish the length of an adult’s finger – has spurred seven environment groups to unite in a last-ditch rescue mission.
- by Bianca Hall and Mike Foley
Inside Tanya Plibersek’s delay in fixing ‘broken’ environment laws
Within two years, the environment minister has gone from long-awaited reformer to a deep disappointment for green groups.
- by Mike Foley
Are wine drinkers too snobbish to drink wine from cans instead of glass?
Winemakers spruik the environmental credentials of canned wine, but retail sales suggest drinkers are yet to be convinced to give up the bottle.
- by Andrew Taylor
Greece puts nearly 200 beaches under lock and key
Disgruntled locals complain of being pushed off their own beaches by a tourist boom that brought more than 32 million foreign visitors to Greece last year.
- by Niki Kitsantonis
‘I found I was more comfortable in the forest’: The scientist who took on the logging industry
Professor David Lindenmeyer looked neater than you’d expect for a man who has spent years in Australia’s oldest forests, locked in political battles with the industries that depend on cutting them down.
- by Nick O'Malley
Plibersek scales back environment reforms as coral bleaching goes global
The Albanese government is backing away from its pledge to lodge a comprehensive nature protection reform in parliament.
- by Mike Foley