A new legal challenge has been launched today against the operator of Whitehaven’s Maules Creek mine for failing to secure thousands of hectares of biodiversity offsets for the...
Blog NSW
Late last Friday, while everyone was transfixed by the burgeoning COVID-19 crisis, a confidential review of how the NSW native vegetation laws are tracking was quietly and...
Blog NSW
EDO’s Papua New Guinean (PNG) legal-advocacy partner CELCOR (Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights) and their client Project Sepik have this week called for the...
Blog international
A message from our CEO David Morris about the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve rapidly and our response is too. I wanted to write now and let you...
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Improving adaptation, sustainability, transparency and public trust On 19 February this year, Dr Emma Carmody, EDO’s Special Counsel and water law expert, gave this opening...
Blog international
Underpinned by legal advice from the Environmental Defenders Office, conservation groups have called for the NSW government to make an emergency endangered species declaration for...
Blog NSW
Environmental Defenders Office joins our client The Wilderness Society (South Australia) in strongly welcoming news that Norwegian multinational Equinor has abandoned its plans to...
Blog SA
The catastrophic bushfire emergency of the past six months has fundamentally changed the landscape that supports Australian wildlife. Huge swathes of habitat areas for Australian...
Blog SA
NSW planning policy for koalas falls short of the legal safeguards needed to protect the iconic animals and their habitats. By Cerin Loane, Senior Policy and Law Reform Solicitor,...
Blog NSW
On Friday 7 February 2020, the new laws and mapping intended to improve protections of koalas in south east Queensland (SEQ) commenced, introduced through the: Nature...
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