One of the gems of this area east of Melbourne is the Royal Botanic Gardens at Cranbourne....

Last year, an anti-logging group Environment East Gippsland initiated an action in the Supreme Court of Victoria to stop the state-owned timber agency VicForests logging at Brown Mountain in Gippsland....

The Supreme Court has decided to uphold a ban on logging in forests at Brown Mountain far east of Melbourne in order to protect species threatened by the practice....

The owls have gone missing! In Victoria, people are starting to notice empty branches where there used to be owls....

What would you do if you realised that a bird species was about to become extinct right before your eyes?...

Dr Milton Osborne, Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, discusses the detrimental effects of further dams being built on the mainstream of the Mekong River....

The Israeli Knesset is the only parliament in the world with a bird sanctuary. Birds migrating between Africa and Asia and Europe use the sanctuary to break their journey. One billion migratory birds fly over Israel, using thermals to avoid the Mediterranean Sea. Yossi Leshem says Israel has over ...

In June, Sharon Carleton reported from Christmas Island. We heard how the environment has been damaged by human activity, and about hopes to expand phosphate mining. The proposal to remove forest and expand mining has been rejected by Environment Minister Peter Garrett. ...

Kimberley pastoralist Keith Anderson is many things. He's the manager of Jubilee and Quanbun Downs Station, he's a community man that volunteers countless hours to events in Fitzroy Crossing, he's a Vietnam veteran, he's what many call a gentleman of the bush. And a few weeks ago, he was also named ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has released a dire report on the future of the burrowing crayfish found only in southern Australia and the US....