National Parks

National Parks are being forced to stay open despite operating on a "bare-bones" crew after cuts to staff and funding. Rangers say they can't sustain it. 

NSW Natural Resources Access Regulator issues a stop-work order halting environmental water flows in Toorale National Park, citing a lack of mandatory reporting.

Visitors will be able to access a vast array of wetlands, woodland and waterholes across the 430,000-hectare site in far west NSW, which is home to dozens of threatened species.

The Georges River Koala National Park, also called Warranmadhaa, will provide a protected corridor for koalas between Campbelltown and Appin where tens of thousands of new homes will be built.

A group of Australia's top environmental scientists calls for changes to prescribed burning after government documents confirm hundreds of trees in an ecological hotspot have been destroyed by a government-lit fire.

A group of 18 people has been fined thousands of dollars after an unauthorised cabin was found on a central Queensland island.

More than five years after being destroyed by the Black Summer bushfires, two heritage huts in the ACT's Namadgi National Park remain burnt-out, fenced-off ruins, despite government promises to build two new structures in remembrance of them.

More than five years after being destroyed by the Black Summer bushfires, Demandering Hut and Max and Bert Oldfields Hut in the ACT's Namadgi National Park remain fenced-off ruins.

Gunlom Falls has been closed since 2019, when damage to a sacred men's site sparked a long-running legal dispute that ultimately reached the High Court. 

The Northern Territory's popular Litchfield National Park is set to expand by 20 per cent, giving Territorians and visitors more places to camp, four-wheel drive, swim and hunt. 

Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is filling for the first time since access to the lake was restricted by a new management plan. An outback boating club has questioned authorities' capacity to enforce the new rules, but traditional owners say the measures respect the environmental and cultural significance of the site.

Authorities have spent more than $100,000 and delayed bushfire safety work to remove hundreds of tyres illegally ditched in one of Queensland's most pristine national parks.

When Hyun Park slipped while climbing in the Warrumbungles, her life depended on her 80-year-old mentor and the tactical gymnastics of a 20-hour overnight rescue mission.

Platypuses in Royal National Park are thought to have been wiped out by an oil spill more than 50 years ago, but the iconic animals are bouncing back thanks to a relocation program. 

Karen Buckner's family spent three nights in a hut during a summer blizzard in Kosciuszko National Park and says it saved their lives. After the Black Summer bushfires, some feared the high country's famous hut network might disappear forever.

Forest ecologist Professor David Lindenmayer says the shock discovery of critically endangered Leadbeater's possum is likely a new subspecies.

The Queensland government has set aside more land for conservation as it seeks to boost its environmental credentials, days after opening more land to gas exploration.

A group of volunteers who helped end plans for a 156-room casino resort near sea lion habitat in South Australia's Chain of Bays celebrate two decades of work to preserve the region's precious ecosystems.

A former dot-com millionaire's plan to install glamping tents at Adam Lindsay Gordon's cottage is opposed by fans of the 19th-century poet. 

An appeal has been made to NSW parliament to scrap a bill recognising the heritage value of wild horses in the Kosciuszko National Park.