Environmental protection
Why trees in this east Melbourne suburb are disappearing at night
The city’s leafy eastern suburbs are quickly losing their greenery as private development and illegal tree-removing operations sweep the area.
- by Najma Sambul
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Gallery: Fighting not sinking
Age photographer Eddie Jim captures a paradise under threat as the Kioan Climate Emergency Declaration is held on Kioa Island, Fiji.
Perth activists call for ban on mining in the jarrah forest at national rally
Environmental activists were part of a rally calling for a national ban on native logging, and an end to mining in the state’s jarrah forest.
- by Holly Thompson
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Forestry
How VicForests hired a private investigator to tail an environmentalist
The Andrews government is facing calls to abolish VicForests after the state’s privacy watchdog found its covert surveillance of environmentalists was unlawful and a flagrant breach of privacy.
- by Lachlan Abbott
‘We can’t ignore this problem any more’: Aerial shooting of feral horses reconsidered
The NSW government is reassessing a proposal to kill feral horses from the air after their populations in the Kosciuszko National Park boomed.
- by Laura Chung
Australia was stripped bare by feral animals. This sanctuary is reversing decades of damage
Like stepping inside a time machine, Newhaven in the Northern Territory offers a glimpse of Australia before Europeans arrived.
- by Nick O'Malley and Nick Moir
Yarra battery pollution fears after 350 drones fall into river in lightshow fail
A Matildas match lightshow that ended when 350 drones fell into the Yarra River has sparked concerns about how environmental risks were managed, as efforts get underway to retrieve hundreds of lithium batteries from the water.  Â
- by Patrick Hatch
Opinion
Ethical living
Twenty years after Save Ningaloo, WA’s next cultural reckoning is here
As we face our moment of no return as a planet, much of our effort must also focus on what’s happening in our own backyard: what we are directly responsible for.
- by Paul Gamblin
Japan to get crucial UN support to release Fukushima water into ocean
Japanese fishing unions, Beijing and New Zealand are among those who have raised concerns about the plan to dump the treated radioactive water into the Pacific.
- by Sakura Murakami
Andrew Hastie backs Dwellingup push against Alcoa mining in jarrah forests
The federal member backed the south west town’s push for further concessions from the miner but cautioned that a compromise was needed between jobs and the environment.
- by Peter Milne
Bird with a wire: How to track one of Australia’s rarest species
Scientists are testing a new way to keep track of young orange bellied parrots, one of Australia’s most beloved (and difficult to locate) threatened species.
- by Miki Perkins