Loading In Franzen’s essay, he quoted sceptics of the policy as saying that TNR programs were often introduced alongside “no kill” policies, which left local governments with full cat shelters and pounds and no tools to deal with the growing nuisance of cat populations. Franzen wrote that in some cases, there were so many “community […]
The court heard that a member of the public found the kangaroo on October 14, 2020, with her legs hanging from a barbed wire fence and called WIRES. A volunteer took the kangaroo to Nepean Animal Hospital for assessment. Head nurse Jess Stone said in her witness statement that the kangaroo had lacerations to both […]
“The team is thrilled this bird is soaring back through our skies and delighting Melburnians again,” Healesville Sanctuary life sciences manager Gerry Ross said. Loading The whereabouts of the other two fledglings that left the ledge are not known, Hurley said, but the adult falcons would stay at Collins Street, having little reason to move […]
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size When Michael Cox was 17 and paddling out for a surf, another surfer collided with him and struck him in the head. After three weeks on life support and six months in hospital he was left with permanent brain damage that harmed his speech. “It was a […]
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size The Maugean skate, a kite-shaped ray that lives on the murky floor of Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania’s wild west coast, appeared on Earth with the dinosaurs but was discovered in 1988. Just seven years later it was listed as endangered. Since then its population has collapsed to […]
A wealthy farmer who once headed up GrainCorp has been fined more than $1 million in the state’s largest-ever fine for an individual convicted of land clearing, and his company has been fined another $1.1 million. Ronald Lewis Greentree and Auen Grain, a company owned and controlled by Greentree, were found guilty of illegally bulldozing, […]
The federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry described the wreck as a “natural event” but urged people to be particularly vigilant given the risk of avian flu entering the country. “These mass mortalities are considered natural events; a by-product of long migration, starvation and exhaustion, exacerbated by severe weather conditions,” a department spokeswoman said. […]