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The government hopes private investors will help save nature. Here's how its scheme could fail

28 Oct 2022

The nature repair market is sold as a good news story: willing land managers benefiting nature with support from the private sector. But if offsets are part of it, the reality could be very different.

An endangered greater glider clings to a eucalypt branch

Labor's plan to save threatened species is an improvement – but it's still well short of what we need

06 Oct 2022

Yes, the new threatened species plan is better. But it’s nowhere near enough to actually prevent Australian species from dying out.

cows on grazing land

National parks are not enough – we need landholders to protect threatened species on their property

11 Feb 2022

Threatened species don’t just live in national parks. Almost half of their distributions are on private land.

discarded white goods on Maitland Road Mayfield

Helping the global environment, one footprint at a time

10 Dec 2021

Countries all over the world who want to report their global material footprint will benefit from a new research platform.

View over the trees in Healesville Victoria

Country, culture and nature-based solutions key to reducing emissions

25 Nov 2021

A new report shows the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss, and the significant consequences facing all life on Earth in failing to do so.

A black and white spotted bird shown sitting on a branch

Destroying vegetation along fences and roads could worsen our extinction crisis

17 Sep 2021

Under a new code, rural landholders in NSW will be allowed to clear up to 25 metres of land outside their property boundary. This will be devastating for the wildlife that live or migrate there.

Okavango delta

Global catalogue of ecosystems launched to enable coordinated conservation efforts

02 Mar 2021

A world-first framework will help identify the ecosystems that are most critical for biodiversity conservation, research, management and human wellbeing.

A colourful seahorse swims among the sea life

Are partially protected areas the ‘red herrings’ of marine conservation?

15 Jan 2021

Partially protected marine areas create confusion and don’t meet their broad conservation objectives, UNSW researchers have found.

A peach quandong fruit

Queensland takes a stand against plants and animals being used without Indigenous consent

18 Sep 2020

Our medicine, cosmetics and other everyday products contain compounds taken from nature. But Traditional Owners may not have given permission for the materials or their knowledge to be used.

Secrets of Antarctic lake’s microbes revealed

11 Aug 2020

UNSW Science Professor Rick Cavicchioli is an expert in microbes and why they are so important – just last year, he led an urgent call for the world to stop ignoring this ‘unseen majority’ in Earth’s biodiversity and ecosystem when addressing climate change. 

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