Native Vegetation Act News Today

Bushfires cause catastrophic biodiversity loss across Australia. In the Black Summer of 2019–20 alone, 103,400 square kilometers of habitat went up in flames.

Call for tougher penalties for criminals trading South Australian reptiles and mammals worth “many thousands of dollars”.

DECADES of dispute over a land clearing permit and native vegetation heritage agreement have left a pair of...

From protecting threatened species to backing coal developments, crucial decisions lie ahead for whoever wins the election

The concessions for habitat and corridors offer too little to ensure the future of Sydney’s last chlamydia-free koala population.

The concessions for habitat and corridors offer too little to ensure the future of Sydney’s last chlamydia-free koala population.

The concessions for habitat and corridors offer too little to ensure the future of Sydney’s last chlamydia-free koala population.

Anyway the new report, entitled Woody Vegetation Change, Statewide Landcover and Tree Study, says that, ‘The calculated annual loss of woody vegetation for 2019 was 54,500 hectares, or 0.08 per cent of the area of NSW’. That’s nearly one per cent of land in NSW cleared every year. How sustainable is that? Eighty six per cent of all clearing was accounted for by agricultural practices, say the authors, and ‘Clearing activities related to infrastructure accounted for the remaining 14 pe...

Her government adopted ecocidal policies that contributed to the horrific fires of 2019–20. It repealed the  Yet, somehow, Berejiklian remains popular. Undoubtedly there are a myriad of reasons for this including media bias and her lauded handling of COVID-19. But, another factor is the way that Berejiklian uses identity politics, framing herself both as a progressive but also as evidence of progress. In this, she follows the playbook of United States President Barrack Obama. In a recent p...