A dying pastime: duck hunting in Victoria

At thirty minutes past sunset on Monday 8 June, duck hunting season in Victoria officially came to a close. For Victoria’s native birds, this comes as a much-needed reprieve – I say native birds plura...

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Four Corners: S2026 Timber Turmoil

As native forest logging ends in some states, we investigate where the industry is heading next. Jessica Longbottom examines the flow of timber across state borders and the growing battle over the fut...

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Urban Trees: An Underused Tool for Keeping People Cool

Trees can make it feel up to 14 degrees cooler. Yet analysis shows many cities are leaving large areas of plantable land underutilized.

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Question mark over duck hunt zone's future

Duck hunters and wildlife rescuers question whether Geelong's hunting zone will be axed due to the influx of new residents so close to shooting.

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Wildfires are reversing America’s progress on ozone pollution

The US had been reducing surface-level ozone, a harmful pollutant and the main component of smog, but that changed as wildfire activity picked up around 2015.

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'Us duck hunters': Victorian watchdog accused of siding with shooters

The Game Management Authority is accused of turning a blind eye to illegal behaviour by shooters while bullying wildlife rescuers and anti-hunting campaigners.

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Helping 'big personality' marsupial recover after bushfires left them homeless

Artificial habitats are giving the Kangaroo Island dunnart a chance at recovery, after bushfires left them largely homeless.

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Koalas at risk of death once seven-day temps rise beyond 27C

The risks of death or hospitalisation of koalas increases as soon as seven-day average maximum temperature is above 27 degrees Celsius, a new study shows.

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Programs: Uncommon Sense – 26 May 2026, Uncommon Sense — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

Professor Euan Ritchie and Dr Yung En Chee examine the federal Labor government's enviromental and conservation policies and funding priorities in the latest budget; Dr Emma Shortis talks Trump in Chi...

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Australia’s ‘green Wall Street’ is failing to launch. Threatened species deserve better than the nature repair market | Euan Ritchie and Yung En Chee

One must ask why Labor is so comfortable continuing to ignore the wishes of the vast majority of voters

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Parent company orders cattle station to 'cease any plans' for bird cull

A cull of 20,000 native birds on a Northern Territory cattle station will not be going ahead.

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Outback cattle station granted permit to cull 20,000 native birds

A permit to cull 20,000 native birds has been granted to a cattle station in the Northern Territory in response to an "overpopulation" of destructive and "exceptionally noisy" galahs and little corell...

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Concerns 'wildlife will be lost' as trees felled for golf course revamp

Wildlife carers are concerned possums and birds will become casualties as trees are felled for the government's $45 million North Adelaide golf course redevelopment.

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Whole villages in Sumatra erased overnight — and still living in the wreckage

Months after floods killed more than a thousand people across Sumatra, residents are still digging their way out of the wreckage. While survivors are eager to rebuild, many just can’t shake the fear t...

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Exmouth beaches a 'graveyard' after ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle

In the popular tourist destination, it appears the category four cyclone has chewed up and spat out whole sections of the Ningaloo Reef onto dry land.

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Koala suffers fatal injuries after allegedly being dragged by car

Wildlife carers say a koala had to be euthanised after it was injured when it was allegedly dragged behind a car in Victoria's south west.

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Shrinking North American bird population is getting worse faster. Experts blame agriculture, warming

A new study finds North American bird populations keep dropping, and that decline is speeding up for many species.

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When feral cats are away, potoroos and bandicoots are more likely to play

When feral cats are scarce, potoroos and bandicoots forage more freely, altering their behaviour and chances of survival.

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'Disgusting' behaviour on Tasmania's coast as penguins poked with sticks

Each summer, tourists flock to Tasmanian beaches to marvel at penguins, but for some, admiring the birds from afar is not enough.

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Property developers spark anger over plan to clear woodland home to Baudin’s and Carnaby’s black cockatoos

Proposal to replant inside a different type of protected woodland would not replicate diversity of cleared sites used by threatened cockatoo species, conservationists say

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Australia spent $26 billion on 'nature-harming' incentives in a year

The federal government funds $26 billion of incentives each year that may be harmful to the environment and is yet to report on its international commitments, researchers say.

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Western quoll joey born in the wild after conservation program success

Once thought to be extinct in NSW, the small, spotted, and highly photogenic western quoll is making a hard-fought comeback to the wild.

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