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| UpdatedA move to ditch the word "wilderness" from Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) management plan will damage the state's brand, the tourism industry says.
Topics: tourism, states-and-territories, national-parks, tas
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NSW voters want a ban on coal seam gas and more of the state's energy to come from renewable sources, according to the ABC's Vote Compass survey.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, environmental-policy, national-parks, nsw
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Queensland's largest national park has reopened and is preparing for what is hoped to be a bumper tourist season.
Topics: national-parks, tourism, travel-and-tourism, birdsville-4482, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825
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A series of big hazard reduction burns are under way in the New South Wales south east.
Topics: conservation, national-parks, bega-2550, cobargo-2550, bombala-2632
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Topics: marsupials, national-parks, conservation, animals, apollo-bay-3233, warrnambool-3280, ballarat-3350
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The final four tourism proposals for Tasmania's national parks are detailed, including a bid to build a helipad on Tasman Island.
Topics: national-parks, tourism, states-and-territories, coles-bay-7215, maydena-7140, maria-island-7190
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Tasmania's peak motoring body, the RACT, is considering resubmitting its proposal for a Gordon River floating hotel after the plan stalled in the first assessment stage.
Topics: national-parks, tourism, states-and-territories, strahan-7468
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| UpdatedEnvironmentalists step up the pressure on the Tasmanian Government over its bid to change how the state's World Heritage Area is managed.
Topics: national-parks, states-and-territories, tas, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedJob cuts planned for Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Service raise concerns about the ability to assess commercial developments proposed for wilderness areas.
Topics: national-parks, states-and-territories, tas
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| UpdatedEmergency crews locate a 24-year-old woman who went missing in the Morwell National Park, in Victoria's east, on Saturday afternoon.
Topics: missing-person, national-parks, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedThe ecologist whose groundbreaking research in the early 1950s led to a total ban on livestock grazing in the Snowy Mountains says he is worried about the state of scientific endeavour in Australia.
Topics: environment, conservation, rural, pest-management, environmental-management, environmental-impact, national-parks, australia, nsw
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Good rains in central Australia have transformed the country. Even the burrowing frogs are celebrating! Read more
Topics: weather, amphibians, national-parks, rural-tourism, alice-springs-0870
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A new 1080 based poison called Eradicat is having good results in feral cat management in Western Australia. Read more
Topics: national-parks, pest-management, pests, endangered-and-protected-species, fitzgerald-river-6338
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Topics: national-parks, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-management, rural-tourism, jabiru-0886
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Director of National Parks, Sally Barnes says the new draft management plan will dictate how Kakadu National Park is run over the next 10 years. Full story here
Topics: national-parks, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-management, rural-tourism, jabiru-0886
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| UpdatedKakadu National Park is developing a new management plan which will guide the park over the next 10 years.
Topics: national-parks, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-management, rural-tourism, jabiru-0886
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| UpdatedDetails of five tourism projects proposed for Tasmania's World Heritage Area and national parks are released.
Topics: national-parks, tourism, states-and-territories, port-davey-7001, flinders-island-7255, derby-7264
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Frogs in the desert might sound a bit far-fetched to many people. But the truth is there's lots of amphibian species living in Central Australia. The Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory are currently spotting frogs in desert. Read more
Topics: rural, national-parks, animals-and-nature, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedTopics: rural, national-parks, animals-and-nature, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedTopics: rural, national-parks, animals-and-nature, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedTopics: rural, national-parks, animals-and-nature, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedFrogs in the desert might sound a bit far-fetched to many people. But the truth is there's lots of amphibian species living in Central Australia including one that lives underground during drought.
Topics: rural, national-parks, animals-and-nature, alice-springs-0870
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The founder of an organisation that breaks-in and re-homes wild brumbies says a trial of a drug that could be used as a control measure for large populations of the horses is providing good early results.
Topics: national-parks, armidale-2350
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Volunteers feel a sense of satisfaction and achievement by helping propagate native shrubs, grasses and trees at the Tumut Landcare nursery. Read more
Topics: volunteers, natives, pasture, national-parks, land-management, conservation, tumut-2720