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    STEP is a community-based environmental organisation with about 500 members from Ku-ring-gai, Hornsby and surrounding suburbs. Our primary aim is to work for the conservation of bushland in northern Sydney.

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    We have recently become aware of massive new development plans at the SAN Hospital. This is a bolt from the blue for all the organisations and community that have been closely involved in the planning...

    Much of the focus on the need to increase tree canopy and vegetation in urban areas has been on areas with higher housing density and on public land. There are also many concerns about the loss of veg...

    Attending the briefing by new Invasive Species Council CEO Jack Gough and his team in March was a highly informative and ultimately uplifting experience. Former CEO Andrew Cox can be assured that the ...

    The first stage of the redevelopment of the Hornsby Quarry, the Crusher Plant Precinct, was opened at the end of March. This precinct takes its name from the former industrial plant that once crushed ...

    The music was great, but WOMADelaide also features an information series called The Planet Talks, with presentations on environmental, sociological and political themes. This year's included a session...

    Clare Valley in South Australia is about 130 km from Adelaide, and a relief to reach by road after stop-start suburbia followed by seemingly endless wheat fields. Established by Jesuits in 1851 to mak...

    A major development application was made for a data centre right next to Lane Cove National Park in Julius Ave, North Ryde. This would have involved the removal of over 500 trees and impacted on habit...

    Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an accelerating rate. And this is not because of fire, storms, or logging. The chronic s...

    Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, or SGARs, are a group of rodent poisons that work by stopping blood clotting or coagulating, causing rodents to bleed to death. SGARs are significantly mo...

    Join in the 2026 City Nature Challenge in the Greater Sydney area. Make observations of wild plants and animals between 24 and 27 April, and take part in the largest community science biodiversity cen...

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