An alarming report released by the Natural Resources Commission (NRC) in the leadup to National Threatened Species Day (today), identifies the extent of state forests occupied by endangered greater gliders has declined by two-thirds over 27 years, and within the remaining occupied habitat populations have collapsed by a similar amount.

The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC), the state’s peak environmental advocacy organisation, is calling for urgent protection of native bushland after new government data shows land clearing rates remain out of control.

Human-created hazards are responsible for most wildlife rescues in New South Wales, and researchers are calling for more prevention strategies to save threatened species.

Native forest logging is again in the spotlight in NSW, following Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Forestry Corporation NSW’s failure to protect nationally endangered species.

A "new, holistic approach to threatened species conservation" has been introduced by the NSW Labor government, reforming the Saving our Species program.

The NSW Government say its threatened species team has discovered a variety of possum thought to be extinct in the state.

Little terns in NSW have experienced another great breeding season, with more than 900 nests counted across the state, the second-highest number in 24 years.

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.

An alliance of 27 environmental groups today welcomed the expansion of Australia’s Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve near Antarctica, but said the government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had missed a rare opportunity to protect globally important feeding grounds for penguins, seals and albatross. 

Yesterday's release of Tasmania's first State of the Environment Report in fifteen years shows that Tasmania's unique environment is being destroyed by extractive industries and their political allies, with national consequences.