Penny Sharpe’s political journey has taken her from street protests to Macquarie Street. Now she is responsible for climate change action and saving the koalas.
The Berejiklian government has been accused of seeking to mask the effect of the 2019-2020 bushfires to protect the logging industry after it asked the main resources watchdog to prepare a secret study.
NSWâs koala truce may be temporary as deep divisions remain
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Ron Land, president of Port Stephens Koalas, a group of volunteers that helps rescue and care for sick and injured marsupials on the NSW mid-North Coast, scoffs at claims the so-called koala wars are over in the state.
Showing visitors around the hospital at the new Port Stephens Koala Sanctuary, Land predicts this weekâs truce over koala planning policy between the NSW Liberals and Nationals will be bad news for an animal already listed as vulnerable in the wild.
Koala rescue: An orphaned joey, and her species fight for survival
When Kailas Wild saved a baby koala, it gave him hope for the future of a whole species under threat.
One morning in February, after the worst of Australia s devastating bushfires had smoldered out, Kailas Wild headed out into the charred blue gum plantations of Kangaroo Island, off the country s southern coast.
A tree surgeon who had come to the island to help rescue koalas in the aftermath of the blaze, Wild was worried to see how much of the foliage that they depend on for food was burned. Then, something else caught his eye: a gaunt baby koala curled up in the blackened leaves, her coat visibly scorched.
State-owned Forestry Corporation says last summer's record bushfires scorched half of the native forest estate and a quarter of its softwood plantations, setting the agency on track for a sharp drop in revenue in coming years.