Endangered species
Experts fear WA’s nature is ‘unravelling before our eyes’. A new report sets out to turn the tide
The state’s peak conservation body has put forward a suite of recommendations, including expanding the EPA and reviewing WA’s prescribed burning program.
- Cameron Myles
Latest
The ‘risky’ plan to take 31,000 Olympic swimming pools from beneath WA’s largest river
The state government says the draft plan to increase groundwater extraction is science-based and supportive of both industry and the environment. These experts are not convinced.
- Holly Thompson
- Opinion
- Opinion
I mentioned quolls. Not one person knew what they were
Invasive predators are being normalised while native species are being driven towards extinction.
- Nicola Barton
Private school given go-ahead to cut down koala habitat for new ovals
The deputy premier has greenlit the plan by Ormiston College after it bypassed the council and sought special permission from the state.
- Julius Dennis
- Opinion
- Environmental threats
Humanity’s endangered, so let’s take a tip from the penguins
In 500 years from now, what will they say about us? Did we dare to choose courage over silence?
- Natalie Kyriacou
Could gene-edited ‘super quolls’ fight back against cane toads?
This marsupial carnivore is endangered, mainly because it tries to eat toxic cane toads. Some scientists think they can stave off extinction by fast-tracking 10,000 years of evolution to provide resistance.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The global frog population is crashing. Here’s why that’s bad news for everyone
Scientists are racing to resurrect frog populations in Central America – and discovering new, surprising links between nature and human health.
- Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara
- Exclusive
- Climate policy
Confidential files reveal logging ban push ignored by the Andrews government
Shortly after Daniel Andrews came to power in 2014, his government received a stark warning about the environmental and economic consequences of native forest logging.
- Royce Millar
Revealed: How salmon politics trumped the environment
A freedom-of-information release reveals formal advice that salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour should cease while approval is reconsidered under federal environmental laws. The government backed the industry instead.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
- Opinion
- Pets
Don’t bell Australia’s cats. Just make it illegal to own one
It is rightly illegal to own or import a fox, and yet we allow the breeding and selling of cats, which do about 10 times more damage.
- Antone Martinho-Truswell