The upgrade of the Hastings Point Wastewater Treatment Plant has been a contentious issue for the Tweed Council with strong community lobbying for the most environmentally sensitive option, which is also the most expensive option by around $20m.
Lismore City councillors voted to write to the NSW Reconstruction Authority (NSW RA) asking to ‘investigate a partnership for the sale of salvaged materials from buyback properties condemned for demolition to the community’.
Palestinian-Australian parents and a Freedom Flotilla survivor occupied the roof of federal MP Justine Elliot's electorate office in Tweed Heads yesterday.
The Alliance for Nature NSW says critical environmental reforms have been delayed and ignored, with concerning indications that some members of the Minns Cabinet are seeking to water down or simply not enact these election commitments.
New Year's day saw native forest logging cease in Western Australia and eastern Victoria, however, yesterday Federal Court judge Justice Perry dismissed the historic legal challenge to the agreement that allows logging in north-eastern NSW native forests.
Australia has signed the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use, committing the nation to halting and reversing forest loss and land degradation by 2030. It appears to have its work cut out for it based on current behaviour.
In the 1980s, over 1,000 blocks of land were excluded from the Daintree National Park and World Heritage area. Since then not-profit organisations have been buying it back with the communities help.
Farmers, forests and climate change: The way that humans use and change the land and its vegetation can have a profound effect on the climate, and can either counteract or exacerbate climate change.
Seventeen of the state’s 20 ‘deforestation hotspots’, including the Lismore region, contain koala habitat at risk of land clearing under new state environmental laws a new report has found.
A free workshop to discuss new laws that are accelerating deforestation across NSW and how communities can restore environmental protections will be held on Thursday, July 26, at Marvell Hall, Byron Bay.
Palestinian-Australian parents and a Freedom Flotilla survivor occupied the roof of federal MP Justine Elliot's electorate office in Tweed Heads yesterday.
