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When Labor took office, it promised to reverse nature’s decline. But that looks more and more like greenwashing
An archaeologist takes bog samples in Germany for analysis of past civilizations and what they cultivated.
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Understanding how humans came to exert such enormous pressure on Earth’s ecosystems can inform more sustainable ways of living.
Jaana Dielenberg
Most Australians don’t need to be persuaded of the benefits of rules that require owners to stop their pet cats roaming outside their properties. Only 8% of those surveyed were against this policy.
Sunday Abiodun, 40, a former poacher turned forest ranger, armed with a sword, looks for poachers inside the Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria, 2023. Abiodun is now part of a team working to protect the Omo Forest Reserve, which is facing expanding deforestation from excessive logging, uncontrolled farming and poaching.
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Interventions to prevent crime against wildlife can be effective, but significant gaps in our knowledge remain.
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What’s in the budget for the environment? Lots for green industry, little for conservation
Greta Valley Landcare Group
Reintroducing locally extinct species is a challenging affair, but with the right partnerships everyone can help make it happen.
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States are once again turning to desalination to secure freshwater supplies. The problem is, they’re often choosing the wrong spot for ecosystems and fisheries
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Explore the incredible underwater world of plankton.
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When it comes to storing carbon, alpine peatlands are powerhouses. But feral horse grazing and trampling tips the carbon balance in the other direction. We need to protect and restore our peatlands.
Marilyn Connell
Once sold as ‘penny turtles’ around Australia, the Mary River turtle’s plight galvanised local community efforts to save it from extinction.
Signs protest against land clearing at Lee Point/Binybara, Darwin.
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Building ecological grief literacy in workplaces can help environmental professionals manage constant exposure to the many causes of their grieving.
Victoria Florence Sperring
The sad case of the Norfolk Island morepork shows we need a way to control or eradicate invasive rodents without killing native species.
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It was once a gross industrial sewer. But decades of work has turned Merri Creek into a green ribbon in Melbourne’s north.
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Environmental success depends on social connections. So if you want to start a new group, you need to think about the people as much as the problem.
A hadeda ibis carries a worm it has just caught from an irrigated lawn.
Carla du Toit
Africa’s hadeda ibises can sense vibrations using a special sensory organ in their beaks. But they need moist soil for it to work.
A pair of male mule deer captured by camera trap in Cathedral Provincial Park, B.C.
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The proliferation of camera traps provided a rich source of observational information about animal behaviour during the pandemic.
Jodi Rowley
Among the poisons found in 36% of the frogs tested, rodenticide was detected for the first time. Pesticides are considered a threat to hundreds of amphibian species.
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It shouldn’t take sustained public outrage to stop environmentally destructive projects. Nature positive offers us a way forward.
A sign warning of a bear in the area is shown in Squamish, B.C. in November 2022.
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The B.C. Conservation Officer Service is a police-like body which is not subject to police oversight. This must change.
A restored wetland near Pflach, Austria.
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Two-thirds of conservation actions studied were found to benefit target ecosystems and species.