Clucky success for region honeyeater

There’s another type of COVID baby boom at Dubbo’s Taronga Western Plains Zoo with the successful hatching of critically endangered Regent Honeyeater chicks after another successful year of captive breeding. The zoo’s brand-new holding aviary and ongoing captive breeding program, supported by the Morrison Government’s $200 million investment in bushfire recovery for wildlife and habitat,…

$1 million for Gunnedah Koalas

Photo caption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton (third from left) and Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley (third from right) announced $1 million in funding for the North West Local Land Services to undertake a range of projects to help protect Gunnedah’s koala population. They are pictured with local landholder Elise Palzer and her son…

Drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre a step closer to becoming a reality

Caption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton today met with stakeholders and members of the Alcohol and Other Drug Detox and Rehabilitation Facility steering committee, including Inspector Tom Aylett from the Barrier Police, Broken Hill City Council’s Dionne Devlin, Western Primary Health Network’s Andrew Coe, Helene Fox from Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation, Andrew House…