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• ‘We are in a housing crisis’: Lismore residents accuse NSW government of demolishing homes that should be relocated

  12-04-2025 22:00
  
  Residents are demanding greater transparency around decisions made as part of the government’s buyback scheme on Lismore’s flood plainGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastSeven months after the worst floods in Australia’s modern history lapped at the roof of Jenny’s* home, she moved back in. The sludge was mopped up, the electrics rewired and a new kitchen installed.The next year, in 2023, Jenny was offered the value of her home as part of the N
  
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• Why resurrect the dire wolf when existing animals are facing extinction? | Martha Gill

  12-04-2025 18:30
  
  It’s not as sensational as recreating long-dead species, but conserving modern-day fauna is far more pressingThe parable of the Mars mission: we’d rather spend trillions sending ourselves to a yet unlivable planet than look after the one we have. And swiftly on its heels, the parable of the dire wolf. We’d rather resurrect a 12,500-year-old species from the dead than save our existing wild animals. Of course we would. Recycling is boring; doing the very thing 90s science fictio
  
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• Inside the fight to save California’s dying sea lions from toxic algae: ‘We’re like 911 operators’

  12-04-2025 18:00
  
  The chance of the marine animal’s survival after domoic acid poisoning is 50-50, and this year, the outbreak has sickened hundredsIt was just after 8am on Tuesday, a thick morning fog still clinging to the California coastline, and SeaWorld’s animal rescue team had already made their first save of the day: a hefty, sick-looking sea lion that had been waddling dangerously close to a four-lane highway in downtown San Diego.Now, in a private area of SeaWorld that few of the theme park&r
  
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• Abandoned lynx, roaming wild boar, ‘beaver bombing’ – has rewilding got out of hand?

  12-04-2025 15:00
  
  From unauthorised species releases to small groups buying up land, ‘guerrilla rewilding’ is going mainstream. But experts worry that these rogue efforts could do more harm than goodVisions of habitats teeming with nature are powerful, particularly so in an age of extinction. Rewilding, which offers the promise of such transformations, was once something most would have imagined happening far away, carried out by people unlike them, but times are changing. The wilderness is getting cl
  
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