The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) ‘Together We Can’ campaign is reassuring if you are concerned about the climate crisis but feel overwhelmed and powerless and/or if you’ve been told that no one cares and it’s too late anyway. If you have made it onto an ACF mailing list you will […]
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Warming up for grim news on climate change
The northern hemisphere is in the midst of a summer marked by devastating wildfires, floods, storms and, of course, the ongoing pandemic – none of which are good signs that the IPCC latest report on climate change, due for release on August 9, would hold anything but grim news. The […]
What does it take to stop a coal mine?
When Centennial Coal cancelled its Angus Place coal mine application last week, five threatened wetlands in the Gardens of Stone were saved and 123 million tonnes of coal was kept safely in the ground. Chris Gambian, CEO of the Nature Conservation Council, says that’s equivalent to two years of NSW’s […]
Climate change and water quality greatest threats to Reef
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 […]
EDO client joins fight to stop extension of Dendrobium
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 […]
Is Australia ready for a better future?
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 […]
Gas is not the solution
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 […]
Disappearing ‘conservation’ and ‘biodiversity’
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 […]
Koalas found on the Central Coast
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 […]
Join fight to ban the HEAVYWEIGHT plastic bag
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 […]