Thorny nature reforms threaten to entangle new minister

Australia's environment minister faces pressure and expectations from both industry and the Greens. (Stuart Walmsley/AAP PHOTOS)

With a reputation as a savvy negotiator, Australia's new environment minister will need all his political nous to navigate the competing interests in the politically fraught portfolio.

Reviving long-promised nature law reforms are top of Murray Watt's to-do list, but that will not be the only challenge of the gig.