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Protecting the Parma Wallaby
Open Forum | December 30, 2024The creation of more fox-free safe havens and greater collaboration between government and landowners is needed to ensure the survival of the threatened Parma Wallaby.
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Nature positive legislation required
Open Forum | October 29, 2024A team of Australian researchers is calling for urgent reforms to the nation’s environmental laws to meet the Federal government’s ambitious nature-positive commitments.
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Philanthropy can help Australia meet land protection targets
James Fitzsimons | July 12, 2024Australia aims to protect 30 percent of its landscapes by 2030 and harnessing the power of philanthropy through government fund-matching initiatives could help achieve this ambitious target.
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Safe havens for wildlife
Open Forum | June 29, 2024In a groundbreaking new article, a coalition of conservationists and researchers have shown how we can protect Earth’s remaining biodiversity by conserving just a tiny percentage of the planet’s surface.
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Palaeo-conservation
Lachlan Gilbert | April 27, 2024Novel rewilding projects by scientists, ecologists and conservationists could give hope to critically endangered animals around the world fresh hope of survival.
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Think globally, act locally
Jaana Dielenberg | April 21, 2023The constant barrage of bad news stories about the global and national environment can make the problems seem too large to solve, but small consistent actions by enough concerned individuals can make a big difference to saving the natural world.
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Green planet
Open Forum | April 20, 2023Half our planet’s land surface must remain vegetated if humanity is to meet international goals for maintaining essentials such as food, clean water, and air.
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Safe havens
Katherine Moseby | March 21, 2023Fenced areas offer endangered Australian wildlife protection against feral predators such as cats and foxes, but further steps will be required to save these species in the wild.
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The case for national environmental standards
Peter Burnett | March 10, 2023Ecologically sustainable development should mean keeping the environment healthy, so future generations can enjoy the same quality of life as we do.
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Developers drive a bulldozer through conservation laws
Open Forum | January 24, 2023Federal environmental laws are failing to stem Australia’s extinction crisis, according to University of Queensland research.
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Last chance to save nature
Alan Stevenson | December 22, 2022The endless tide of bad news about the environment can depress people rather than inspire them, but there are shafts of light in the darkness.
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Citizen science on Kangaroo Island
Open Forum | December 18, 2022Visitors to South Australia’s popular holiday destination, Kangaroo Island, are invited to lend a hand to help the island’s world-leading environment by joining the ‘Passport to Recovery’ citizen science project this summer.