National parks
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Endangered species
The ‘time capsule’ being built in the middle of suburban Sydney
At a new national park nestled amid housing development in suburban Sydney, locally extinct animals are coming back one species at a time.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Four-year-old girl flown to hospital following dingo attack on K’gari
The girl was with a fishing group when she was grabbed around the chest area, causing lacerations, bruising and a puncture wound.
- by Courtney Kruk
Are our selfies killing WA’s best assets? Scientists say yes
A desperate attempt is under way to protect rare species from social media-driven nature tourism and influencer culture.
- by Claire Ottaviano
Bone found at Balmoral Beach reveals origins of Australia’s apex predator
When Sally Wasef sent a bone found in an exclusive Sydney enclave off for carbon testing, she thought it would be a couple of hundred years old. She was wrong.
- by Catherine Naylor
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Heritage
Ray of hope for beach shack owners in the Royal National Park
The beach communities at Little Garie, Era and Burning Palms in Australia’s oldest national park are heritage listed. Their licences expire in March 2027, and the government is yet to decide what happens after that.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Political fight sparks as electricity network axes timber power poles
Essential Energy, the electricity distributor that covers 95 per cent of NSW, is switching to composite poles to make its network more resilient in bushfires.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Architecture
The spot in Sydney where if you sing to whales, they sing back
Two new lookouts at North Head seem to conjure the whales, and there’s an eerie echo straight out of Finding Nemo.
- by Julie Power
Aerial shooting culls thousands of horses in Kosciuszko
NSW government is ramping up the removal of feral horses from the alpine environment with a controversial technique.
- by Mike Foley
Demand for steak fuelling deforestation and extinction in NSW
The NSW biodiversity outlook suggests the state is set lose nearly a quarter of all known plant and animal species in the next 100 years, and habitat loss from land clearing especially in the agricultural industry is the biggest cause.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Visitor caps, lower speed limits on agenda for popular national parks
Consultants have told the Queensland government the overuse of beaches and trails, particularly by four-wheel-drives, is a problem that needs to be addressed.
- by Sean Parnell
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Brumby cull
Cassandra adopted a brumby. What happens when you rehome a feral horse?
Brumby advocates remain opposed to culling and argue rehoming should be the future of feral horse management. Environmentalists say it’s “tinkering at the edges”.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons