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.
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.
Koalas can cope with the stresses of city life provided we plan urban developments in ways that help meet their basic needs.
The failed attempt to reinstate land clearing regulations in Queensland has prompted ‘panic clearing’, pushing Australia into the global top-ten deforesters.
Legal vegetation ‘thinning’ is contributing to high rates of land clearing, potentially causing problems for threatened species and ecosystems.
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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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW
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Future Making Fellow, Environment Institute, Adelaide University
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Landscape Ecologist, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor (Adj) He/Him, Southern Cross University
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Senior Research Assistant in the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor Emerita, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Associate Professor in Geography, Adelaide University