New Zealand's newest Great Walk has been purpose-built to accommodate walkers and bikers, but questions have been raised over whether mountain bikes, helicopters and sporting events will be allowed anywhere in the national park it crosses.
The Paparoa Track, in the West Coast's Paparoa National Park, has been marketed as the first Great Walk to allow mountain-biking year round.
The New South Wales government has begun trialling aerial shooting to reduce the number of feral horses which are destroying fragile alpine ecosystems in Kosciuszko national park. In November, 270 fe
Many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer, as carbon pollution heats the planet to ever more dangerous levels, scientists have warned. Five important natural thresholds already risk
When Fred Telekwa settled on his farm inside Nyakweri forest, in western Kenya, four years ago, his main worry was how to prevent elephants and buffaloes from destroying his crops. The nearby Maasai