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With its environmental devastation and persistent dependency on disproven myths, the logging industry needs to be re-examined as a whole, Rosemary Sorensen writes.

True, the revenue streams from Black Duck Foods haven't been quite so robust of late, but spare not a moment's concern for the fauxborigine charlatan's financial good health. Between grants, a professorial pay packet from Melbourne University, Dark Emu royalties, speaker gigs, paying guests at his Gypsy Point farm and volunteer labor, King Bruce of the Scam'em Nation is still doing quite nicely

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This long-form story, by environment and sustainability writer Bron Willis, was published in Issue 100 of the Cosmos print magazine.

Victoria's native forestry industry will effectively come to an end on the 1st of January, after the state government brought forward a ban from 2030, to 2024. Environmentalists have welcomed the move, saying it's time to institute a national ban on native forest logging. But those in the industry say they've been short-changed, and the government's announcement caught them unprepared.

Biodiversity Council says offsets should be a last resort and only used for ‘nature that we can replace’

Australia's environmental protection regime is broken and needs an urgent overhaul to prevent devastating biodiversity loss, a group...

Urgent changes are needed to Australia's biodiversity offsets system, which is failing to stem the rapid destruction of the environment, experts warn.