This cute little native rat has defied Australia’s biodiversity crisis
The Golden-backed Tree-rat, also known as the koorrawal, has defied the odds – at least technically according to government guidelines.
19 February 2024
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EPA backtracks on controversial logging rules
NSW's environmental watchdog has scrapped controversial new logging rules after scientists and conservation groups warned they would fast track the extinction...
16 February 2024
Report estimates Forestry Corp breached regulations 1,215 times in Tallaganda
A new report estimates Forestry Corporation NSW breached regulations 1215 times in recent logging operations in Tallaganda State Forest, one of the last...
13 November 2023
The images that expose Forestry Corp of NSW
Three conservation groups have revealed that Forestry Corporation of New South Wales failed to protect likely thousands of greater glider den trees when it...
6 October 2023
“Gut wrenching carnage” chopper flight over Tallaganda destruction
A helicopter flight over the logging destruction of prime greater glider habitat in Tallaganda has shocked ACT Independent Senator David Pocock and Dermot...
19 September 2023
Take a moment to be amazed, at one of Australia’s most spectacular sights
On National Threatened Species day, let’s all take a moment to enjoy amazing video of one of the world’s largest gliding animals – Australia’s endangered...
7 September 2023
EPA issues stop work order on logging of greater glider habitat at Tallaganda
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia tonight commended the New South Wales Environment Minister Penny Sharpe and the NSW Environment Protection Authority...
30 August 2023
NSW is logging one of the state’s last strongholds for greater gliders
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia today expressed shock that the Forestry Corporation New South Wales is logging one of the last remaining strongholds...
29 August 2023
Bettongs on board: tiny marsupials fly interstate to new home in South Australia
Seven commercial flights landed in Adelaide last week with some unusual passengers - a group of tiny, critically endangered marsupials. Seventy-three...
20 June 2023
Egg-citing news: rare glossy black cockatoo hatches in NSW Northern Rivers
The population of one of Australia’s rarest cockatoos has grown by at least one after glossy black-cockatoo parents successfully raised a chick in the Northern...
14 June 2023
GPS collars to unlock secrets of greater gliders
Researchers are tracking greater gliders in one of the first studies to use GPS collars on the world’s largest gliding marsupial.
13 June 2023
Critically endangered marsupials now thriving on Yorke Peninsula
New monitoring has revealed the population of brush-tailed bettongs continues to grow in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park - a promising sign for Marna...
19 May 2023