In what’s been hailed as a massive breakthrough, a chlamydia vaccine implant has been administered to a wild koala for the first time, with calls for a wider vaccination roll out.

A global study of mangroves has found a modest boost in conserved area could significantly increase their ability to adapt to the changing climate, including rising sea levels.

Bangalow Koalas is proud to announce the planting of its 500,000th tree, a remarkable achievement in the organisation’s mission to restore and reconnect vital koala habitat across the Northern Rivers.

Local legend Amanda Philp of Australian Seabird & Turtle Rescue has been awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to study a devastating viral disease which affects green sea turtles here and around the world.

The Northern Rivers Wildlife Hospital (NRWH) has opened its doors at the purpose-built site at Wollongbar to provide care, rehabilitation, and conservation support for injured, sick, and orphaned animals across the Northern Rivers.

Conservation groups have published an open letter calling on NSW Premier Chris Minns to declare the full 176,000 hectares assessed as the Great Koala National Park.

On Friday, Save Wallum Inc. will open its case against Clarence Property in the Federal Court of Australia, seeking a permanent injunction to the proposed development at Bayside Brunswick Heads, formerly called ‘Wallum’.

Things are getting scary for koalas as their habitat is reduced daily, but communities are getting together to monitor local koala populations for the purpose of conservation.

The Albanese government, which committed to ‘no new extinctions’ in 2022, approved more than 25,000 hectares of threatened species habitat to be destroyed in 2024 – more than twice as much as the previous year, according to new analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

John Seed, founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and the Deep Ecology Network, was arrested yesterday for attaching himself to logging machinery in Bulga State Forest, becoming the 16th person to be arrested in this campaign.