endangered species

This fictitious project approval helps us better understand how environmental governance in Australia has gone badly wrong.

Tanya Plibersek’s views on what the new government’s approach will be to Australia’s deteriorating environment will include a lot of work for public servants.

The electorate with the most threatened species is Durack in WA, held currently by MP Melissa Price. What’s your electorate like?

Recently, New Zealand conservation minister Kiritapu Allan described NZ’s existing conservation legislation as not fit for purpose, and she’s right.

In 2012 Australia signed up to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, a scheme designed to create a market for its water and to safeguard the environment. But the Plan has gone horribly wrong.

Like other disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to implement solutions that will ultimately benefit humans and the planet. Let’s make ending wildlife markets one of them.

The methods used by Nepal and Bangladesh can – and should – be employed for other iconic, charismatic species that can be individually identified, such as jaguars in South and Central America; leopards, cheetahs, and hyenas in Africa, and possibly even quolls in Australia.