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Showing posts with label marine protected areas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marine protected areas. Show all posts
Thursday, 7 March 2024

Climate Council sounding the alarm on a severe bleaching event unfolding across more than 1,100kms of the Great Barrier Reef from Lizard Island to the Keppel Islands

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  Coral Bleaching, Heron Island Great Barrier Reef IMAGE: Divers for Climate ,   February 2024 Climate Council Climate pollution is “cookin...
Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Norway needs to withdraw its majority-owned petroleum mining company from the Great Australian Bight

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Plans to drill in the middle of the Great Australian Bight have led to a fierce battle, as a Norwegian Energy giant faces off with Aussie...
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Monday, 1 October 2018

It appears the Australian Government's $487.6 million* grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation may end up paying for little more than ‘feel good’ greenwashing exercises

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The Guardian , 26 September 2018: Great Barrier Reef scientists were told they would need to make “trade-offs” to the  Great Barrier...
Tuesday, 31 July 2018

A trio of Great Barrier Reef Foundation directors decline to appear before a senate committee inquiry

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On 19 June 2018, the Senate referred the 2018-19 Budget measure  Great Barrier Reef 2050 Partnership Program  to the Environment and Commu...
Sunday, 10 June 2018

The political endorsements of extinction by Turnbull, Berejiklian and Palaszczuk governments continue

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The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 June 2018: Wild fish stocks in Australian waters shrank by about a third in the decade to 2015, declini...
Friday, 13 April 2018

No wonder I don’t buy Japanese goods – including those now 100% Japanese-owned well-known Australian brands

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The Strait Times , 31 March 2018:                                                  This undated file picture released on February 7...
Thursday, 8 February 2018

Environmental disaster in NSW a herald of things to come given impacts of climate change are being felt in coastal communities and coastal waters

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The Newscastle Herald , 1 February 2018: THERE are fears thousands of “ravenous” kingfish that escaped a state-government jointly run...
Thursday, 18 January 2018

Reef 2050 plan to restore outstanding universal values of the Great Barrier Reef decade by decade questioned in the wake of back to-back bleaching events

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Time is running out for one of the seven wonders of the natural world. Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef is now severely damaged by b...
Thursday, 4 January 2018

A reminder that the Government of Japan still allows its whalers to slaughter whales in the Antarctic section of the Australian Whale Sanctuary

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Australian Whale Sanctuary,  www.environment.gov.au In 2015 Environmental Defenders Office ( EDO NSW) received instructions from ...
Sunday, 22 October 2017

Castle Hill, Townsville carries the message "STOP ADANI"

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A major heritage-listed landmark shows that not everyone in Townsville, Queensland, appears to be happy with becoming a mining FIFO dump...
Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Under Turnbull Government's new plan "38 out of 44 marine parks will be open to trawling, gillnetting and longlining, 33 will be open to mining, and 42 exposed to the construction of pipelines"

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www.parksaustralia.gov.au Canberra Times , 17 September 2017: In the corridors of Parliament House that day, as I met MPs of eve...