Environmental Justice News

The South Australian State Government is attempting to delete not only the words conservation and biodiversity from its Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Act but the concepts. According to a Change.org petition started by Outback Advocates to David Basham SA Minister for Primary Industry and Regional Development over two thirds […]

Central Coast Council has found the funds to complete the first ever survey for Koalas across the region. As Ecologically Endangered Communities (EECs) such as Umina Coastal Sandplain Woodland on the Woy Woy Peninsula and various EECs in COSS land and wetlands are subject to risks that the Central Coast […]

The Australian Marine Conservation Society has issued a call to action against heavyweight plastic bags sneaking their way back into shops and takeaway outlets. “In bad news for ocean wildlife, many big retailers have been handing out thick plastic bags – circumventing bans on lightweight plastic bags in every state […]

The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) will represent farmers and community members in the NSW IPC as they attempt to stop a proposed gold mine in central-western NSW over its impacts on water. EDO lawyers will provide expert legal advice to the local community and will brief scientific experts to appear […]

The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) has reported that its clients, Protect Our Water Catchment (POWC), have applied to join legal proceedings so they can defend the refusal of a coal mine extension south of Sydney.  In February 2021, the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission (IPC) rejected the expansion application by South 32, to extend the life of its Dendrobium mine, near Wollongong.  South32 had sought planning […]

People worldwide celebrate the magnificence and importance of sharks and rays on July 14. According to the Australian Marine Conservation Society Australia is home to one-quarter of the world’s shark and ray species. Half of our 322 species are unique or endemic to Australian waters – that means they’re found nowhere else […]

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be among the hardest hit by the impacts of climate change despite contributing the least to climate change. The First Nations Climate Justice Panel is an all-Indigenous panel supported by Emergency Leaders for Climate Action (ELCA). They have published a summary of the […]

The Federal Environment Department has drafted a National Recovery Plan for the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) (combined populations of Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory). It is proposed that this plan be made under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). Comments on this draft […]

The Australian Conservation Foundation is encouraging individuals to halt the Morrison Government’s plans to hand millions of dollars in public money to gas companies to frack the Northern Territory’s precious Beetaloo Basin. Gavan McFadzean, ACF’s Climate Change Program Manager described the area as a vast cultural landscape of tropical savanna […]

Torres Strait Islanders are among hundreds of millions of people worldwide who are at risk of being displaced by rising sea levels caused by climate change. A new study released in the peer reviewed journal Nature Communications has found that 267 million people worldwide live on land less than two […]