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UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee (WHC) has deferred its decision to list the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ by a year but that doesn’t mean the Federal Government is off the hook according to the Australian Marine Conservation Society. The Society says the Australian Government has six months to report […]
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Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) clients Protect Our Water Catchment (POWC) 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 […]
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Better Futures Forum Australia will be held online over three days from August 17 in preparation for the COP26 in Glasgow in November which has been labelled by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) as the “most important climate meeting ever”. “Global leaders will decide on targets and policies that maintain […]
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The Greens party leader, Adam Bandt, says the word Beetalo is going to enter common parlance in a similar way to Adani. “Imagine if I said there was a way that ‘carbon capture and storage’ actually worked and was economically feasible,” Bandt posed in the July edition of the Greens […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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