Martine Maron receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the National Environmental Science Program, and State government sources. She is a director of BirdLife Australia. Bill Laurance ...

New federal emissions figures showed the amount of land-sector carbon emissions rose from about 13 million tonnes in 2012 to 23 million tonnes in 2015. The data showed emissions linked to land ...

Coalmining giant Adani has been slapped with a $20,000 fine for providing misleading documents to the state’s environmental regulator about land clearing activities at its Carmichael mine site. The ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Gympie. Followed categories will be added to My News. The proposed changes are set out in the Queensland Government’s Vegetation Management (Reinstatement) and ...

An Indigenous elder found guilty of illegally clearing land to build a house has appealed on the grounds it was a traditional cultural activity. In a prosecution brought by Redland City Council, ...

Graziers say it shows their land management practices are sustainable, but conservationists still argue too many trees are being felled, putting ecosystems at risk. It comes as Canberra battles to ...

The Labor Government needs crossbench support to pass any bill. The LNP and two Katter's Australian Party MPs have vowed to oppose the government's proposed bill to restrict the amount of land being ...

Natural Resources Minister Andrew Cripps says they will amend Labor's Vegetation Management Act, which vilified primary producers and left landholders "brow-beaten" with a complex web of legislation.

At least 170 people protested against land clearing outside the Queensland parliament on August 17 ahead of a bill which would have required landholders to prove they had not illegally bulldozed their ...

Environment groups say new land-clearing laws, expected to be put before the Queensland parliament this week, contain loopholes that could allow the continued clearing of high-value vegetation where ...

Megan C Evans receives funding from an Australian Postgraduate Award and a CSIRO top-up scholarship. Queensland’s land clearing has yet again become a national issue. After laws were relaxed under the ...