The Biodiversity Council is calling for more resourcing to scale up the processing of threatened species assessments and nominations.

Between one to three species of insects and other native invertebrates, such as pollinators and other beneficial species like earthworms, are becoming extinct in Australia every week, and about 9000 have become extinct since European arrival in 1788.

New research adds to the pool of studies that show National Parks provide a total economic benefit worth 50 times more than the cost of running the parks and recommends new parks in low socio-economic areas.

Today the Australian Government announced more than $100 million to fight the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which has killed millions of animals overseas, including wild birds and mammals, and livestock.

The Australian Government spends around 50 times more on subsidising activities that harm the environment than it spends on helping biodiversity each year, according to an assessment undertaken by Biodiversity Council

The Biodiversity Council is deeply disappointed by the decision of the Victorian Allan Government to continue to allow the killing of dingoes in Victoria.

The Biodiversity Council strongly support the position of the crossbench in calling for an end to the carve-out of native forest logging from national environmental law.

Leading Australian scientists and First Nations experts are calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to deliver on Labor's election commitment and establish an effective national environmental protection agency.

Biodiversity Council responds to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's EPA comments.

The 2024 Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report has just been released by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA). Here is what our experts had to say.