Environment
Conservation
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Penny for her thoughts? When an activist joins the establishment to ‘cause trouble’
Penny Sharpe’s political journey has taken her from street protests to Macquarie Street. Now she is responsible for climate change action and saving the koalas.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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Opinion
Forestry
Loggers get their way in proposed koala national park
The Minns government’s failure to immediately halt Forestry Corporation NSW plans to log the proposed Great Koala National Park on the Mid North Coast is a policy travesty.
- by The Herald's View
Before creation of koala national park, loggers target key habitat
The NSW government stands by its promise to create a Great Koala National Park despite its own logging company planning operations in 20 per cent of the land inside its proposed boundaries this year.
- by Nick O'Malley
Two in the bush: The quest to save Australia’s wildlife
Tanya Plibersek came into office promising no new extinctions. This small brown bird, native to a tiny island, could be the canary in her coalmine.
- by Miki Perkins
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Is it too late to save an Aussie icon from extinction? I asked ‘Dr Koala’
Koalas are up against the formidable foes of logging and climate change, but solutions exist if we want to grasp them.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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Biodiversity
Could this shark’s blood help save the species? Scientists hope so
Leo the zebra shark may only be two-metres long, but he could hold the genetics needed to rescue his species.
- by Laura Chung
From the Archives, 1993: Sightings raise hope for rare parrot
Sightings at Werribee Sewerage Farm of two orange-bellied parrots wearing leg bands in 1993 lifted hopes that one of Australia’s rarest birds could be saved from extinction.
- by Graeme O'Neill
Editorial
City life
Powerhouse power down risks museum losing purpose
A $500 million redevelopment of the Powerhouse Museum seems on hold as authorities return to their old indecisive habits.
- The Herald's View
We thought we’d saved the whales. Were we wrong?
Antarctica is a place of solace and sustenance for southern-hemisphere whales, but for how much longer?
- by Amanda Hooton
Analysis
Brumby debate
National Parks juggles death threats and stalking as well as feral horses
As feral horse numbers explode in the delicate Australian alps, park rangers facing death threats have ramped up security as they combat the damage the brumbies cause.
- by Nick O'Malley
From the Archives, 1993: Rare possum’s habitat destroyed by mistake
In 1993, a mapping error resulted in the destruction of a prime habitat of one of Victoria’s rarest mammals, the endangered Leadbeater’s possum.
- by Graeme O'Neill