Environment & Biodiversity

Leanne Minshull

In the coming weeks in the federal Senate, the Australian Greens will hold the balance of power vote on a small disallowance motion with big repercussions for climate policy in Australia.

Bob Debus

A statement by Bob Debus, Chair of Wilderness Australia (formerly the Colong Foundation for Wilderness), on the new carbon offset method called the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method that allows State Governments to earn carbon credit units under the ACCU Scheme.

Reece Pianta

The national eradication program has reached a major milestone. After years spent chasing the growing edges of the infestation, eradication teams are now moving into the core of the invasion. This marks the turning point and means the strategy is working.

Kate Dooley

Saving forests and saving the climate were never competing goals, and the federal government has already committed to both. As Australia steps onto the international stage to lead the global climate negotiations this year, it must honour those commitments rather than set a dangerous precedent for forest protection.

Reece Pianta

Experts warned governments the national fire ant eradication program needed at least $200m a year to stay ahead of the invasion. Governments chose to spend around $60 million instead. Funding gaps turned a manageable biosecurity challenge into a crisis we are still paying for.

Rob Brewster

Real resilience requires a different shape of thinking: not ‘each sanctuary for itself’, but a connected system that spreads risk across the broadest possible geographic range. In the bird flu era, survival depends on turning individual sanctuaries into an intentionally linked network that shares the job of keeping a species alive.