The Latest Breaking News from Tanya Plibersek

Australia's water minister has hinted major water-savings deadlines in the Murray-Darling Basin Plan could be extended beyond 2024, as New South Wales claims it has won a commitment for "greater flexibility" to deliver one of the country's biggest environmental reforms.

The Commonwealth government has been advised to reject a controversial coal seam gas project in Queensland, which poses risks to endangered turtle species.

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Australia’s dire and shameful conservation record is well established. The world’s highest number of recent mammal extinctions – 39 since colonisation. Ecosystems collapsing from the north to the south, across our lands and waters. Even species that have survived so far are at risk, as the sad list of threatened…

Advocates deride $224.5m funding pledge given one study suggests $2bn a year needed to recover 2,000 threatened plants, animals and ecological communities

New species added to the critically endangered and endangered lists as the government outlines a pathway for conservation and recovery.

Australia will set aside at least 30% of its land mass for conservation in a bid to protect plants and animals in the island continent famed for species found nowhere else in the world, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said on Tuesday. Australia has lost more mammal species than any other…

Government says it will aim to conserve 30 percent of Australia’s land mass in attempt to protect its unique wildlife.

The Federal Government has launched a new threatened species action plan with the ambitious goal to stop further extinctions in Australia.