In environment circles 2017 is a significant watershed in that it marks the fifty years Anniversary for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service [NPWS]. The NPWS was created in 1967 from the integration of the Fauna Protection Panel and Reserves Branch of the Lands Department and today functions as part of the Office of […]
by Richard Bates Question: Can floating offshore wind farms and migrating whales coexist? The saving from extinction of the East Australian humpback whale has been one of humanity's great environmental success stories. By the mid 1960s a hundred years of commercial whaling had driven the population down to somewhere between just 100 to 150. We