In his National Press Club address, Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry made the case for urgent, ambitious nature law reform to boost productivity while saving species.
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South Australia’s new Biodiversity Act will achieve things no federal or state law has done before. It shows states and territories can achieve ambitious reform.
There’s a strong case to be made for private landholders to conduct their own cool burns, for dual purposes of reducing fuel load and restoring the ecology.
After years of neglect, Australia’s environmental crises can wait no longer. Here’s what our new government can do quickly to begin turning things around.
Our new analysis suggests the vast majority of carbon credits granted for regrowing native forests either has not occurred, or would have occurred anyway.
By spending $2 billion each year for about 30 years, we could restore much of Australia’s severely denuded landscapes.
We can manage the risks from bushfires far more effectively if we look at the ways different plant species control the the way the fires burn.
Extreme weather will affect people and animals, as well as whole ecosystems. Research using satellites shows that ecosystems worldwide are vulnerable to collapse.
Australia’s risks losing its valuable native plants that could help solve a global food problem. So do we need new laws to stop the seeds being taken overseas?
Bushfires are a part of life in Australia, and when they have run their course we pick up where we left off and carry on. But if you happen to be a small animal, surviving the bushfire is only the start…
Last week, an environmental officer, Glendon Turner, was allegedly shot and killed by a farmer near the town of Moree in New South Wales. A 79-year old man, Ian Turnbull, has been charged with Mr Turner’s…
The Victorian government is overhauling its rules on native vegetation clearing, the first major change in this area for more than a decade. Vegetation management policy rarely makes it into the news…
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Future Making Fellow, Environment Institute, Adelaide University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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National Research Coordinator, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Research Associate, University of New South Wales, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate in Ecological Resilience, Climate Change Cluster (C3), University of Technology Sydney
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Professor Emeritus in Terrestrial Ecology, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University
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Adjunct associate in archaeology, Flinders University
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PhD Candidate, Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor Emerita, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Associate Professor in Geography, Adelaide University