At Food Plant Solutions you can find all the information you need about nutritional food, why we need it and how to grow and use it. The NGO’s co-founder, agricultural scientist Bruce French, has spent over 30 years voluntarily documenting information on all the food plants of the world, establishing a database of over 30,000 […]

Waverley Cemetery’s 16 hectares of green space are undisturbed by vehicles or development. The area has become a haven for small birds, reptiles and other wildlife. With all this teeming natural world, it has also become a tourist destination in its own right. But you can also create your own little wildlife haven – Sam […]

Australian poetry at your doorstep

Scientist Jennifer Lavers urges us to ditch balloons and find more environmentally-friendly alternatives for party decorations. In her personal crusade against plastic pollution, Jennifer found countless balloons in the stomachs of dead birds. But balloons might be more toxic in general and the industry’s claim of their biodegradability a form of corporate greenwashing.

Is the new Guula Ngurra National Park, which means “koala country” to the Gundangara traditional owners, enough to save our endangered koalas?  The NSW Government hopes a new National Park will protect koala habitat in the Southern Highlands. While environmental groups welcome any additional national park space, our koala population is in decline.

According to a new study, affluence is killing the planet. In our society, overconsumption is encouraged – but do we consume ourselves to extinction? A return to a more sufficiency-oriented lifestyle might even bring us more time affluence.

David Barr talks to Ray Dearlove about his new book on the plight of rhinos. Ray is passionate about protecting them for the predations of poachers.

Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) doesn’t do what it says. We are now a world leader in deforestation and mammal extinction rate. Currently, the Government is reviewing its national environment laws. Suzanne Milthorpe from the Wilderness Society explains the EPBC interim report.