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In 1990, 6 per cent of the Yan Yan Gurt Creek Catchment, incorporating Deans Marsh near Colac, had forest cover.

Every month, chickens are giving up their blood for the sake of humans.

Cows are donating their blood as an early disease detection measure to protect the country's bovine herd.

Students at Alawa Primary School and Charles Darwin University have teamed up to plant an orchard of 50 bush tucker trees.

Weaner cattle have sold for the best prices in a decade at Victoria's annual high country cattle sales.

It's a bit like mixing ingredients for a cake, but on a much grander scale.

More than 200,000 trees are to be planted in central-west NSW as part of a project to generate electricity using renewable fuel.

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but for students in the Burdekin region of North Queensland the spade is mightier still.

Some Murray river system irrigators feel unfairly targeted by the Federal Government as it buys water for the environment.

"One half of the world's population, approximately three billion people on six continents, lives or works in buildings constructed of earth."*