Australia’s new environmental laws will provide “tangible gains for the environment and for business,” that is according to Murray Watt, Australia’s environment minister, who yesterday passed a suite of new laws – including updating the 26 year old Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and setting up a new federal Environmental Protection Agency – were […]| Wood Central
Australia’s koala population—listed as “Endangered” in Queensland, New South Wales, and the ACT since at least 2022—is now booming across the eastern seaboard, thanks to new data from Australia’s leading science body, the CSIRO. That is according to CSIRO’s National Koala Monitoring Programme (NKMP), which, since 2023, has used expert data rather than opinion to […]| Wood Central
Just over 1/3 of Australia’s pre‑colonisation native forests remain as mature forests, according to the Australian Conservation Foundation, which, drawing on data from the Australian Government’s State of the Forests Report, revealed today that just 34.7% of Australia’s 18th‑century forests remain today. “Australia has lost almost two‑thirds of its mature forest cover since Europeans arrived. […]| Wood Central
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