Environment & Biodiversity
Victoria's duck hunting season begins amid declining support and compliance concerns
At 8am, 18th of March, Victoria entered its duck hunting season for 2026. That’s right, until thirty minutes after sunset on 8 June, native waterbirds can be shot for “sport” across 3.5 million hectares of public land in Victoria.
"Genuinely historic": Australia on the cusp of ratifying High Seas Biodiversity Treaty
Australia is on the cusp of ratifying a landmark international oceans treaty that will pave the way for large-scale marine sanctuaries as threats from overfishing, pollution and climate change intensify. David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said it was a “genuinely historic” milestone for global ocean protection.
Pressure mounts to save Macquarie Harbour as salmon farming backlash grows
Environment Minister Murray Watt is facing renewed pressure to intervene and protect Tasmania’s heritage-listed Macquarie Harbour amid deepening public opposition to the state’s salmon farming industry.
Why Australia’s pesticide regulator took years to act on rat poison
Australia’s poisons regulator shows how hard it is to rebuild an institution after it is damaged. As it rebuilds, Australian native animals are dying.
New ban on dangerous rodent poisons is lifeline for our native animals
We’ve just had an epic win for our native animals, such as owls, goannas and eagles. And after years contributing to the scientific evidence on the wildlife impact of rodent poisons, it’s a day scientists like myself feared would never come.
Good News: Australia could finally remove wildlife poison from shop shelves
Australia’s wildlife is facing a quiet and unnecessary threat, not just from habitat loss, bushfires or climate change, but from something sitting on the shelves of hardware stores and supermarkets, and in turn households: rat poison.
Hanson-Young backs Wildlife Recovery call for urgent funding to save injured native animals
Australia’s struggling wildlife rescue sector is calling for the Albanese government to fund a national system for treating injured and orphaned native animals.
Make it make sense: Pay to see the Twelve Apostles, but gas companies drill for gas and dump right beside them tax free?
Visitors to the Twelve Apostles along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road will soon be asked to pay an entry fee, with the Vic State Government arguing it’s ‘only fair’ that visitors contribute to maintaining one of Australia’s most visited natural landmarks.
Two prospects for huge ocean conservation gains are now within grasp – and it’s about time
Amidst the high drama of parliament this past month, a quiet but historic moment is unfolding largely unnoticed. After two decades of campaigning, several years of treaty negotiations, and a few more drafting laws, legislation has finally been tabled for Australia to join the new High Seas Treaty. This is arguably the most significant global agreement on nature protection of our generation.
Darwin needs a Clean Air Act, not lucky escapes
When INPEX Australia admitted it had under-reported benzene and toluene emissions from its Ichthys LNG facility by orders of magnitude, Territorians were told we were “lucky” nothing worse happened.
