Orange roughy fishery report recommends ‘sustainable seafood’ status — but is slammed by conservation groups By Nick Kilvert, ABC Science CONSERVATION GROUPS have slammed moves to reclassify Australia’s orange roughy fishery as sustainable under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification guidelines. CAPTION: Orange Roughy live for over 140 years and don’t reach sexual
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Environmental issues in the Capital region and surrounds.
24 scientists wrote to these officials about flawed and cruel aerial baiting with 1080 poison
(underway now in NSW, regardless) 17 February 2020 To: The Honourable Sussan Ley MP Minister for Environment, Australia Address: Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 (minister.ley@environment.gov.au) cc: The Honourable David Littleproud MP, Minister for Agriculture, Australia (minister.littleproud@agriculture.gov.au) cc: The Honourable Lily D'Ambrosio MP, Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Victoria (lily.dambrosio@parliament.vic.gov.au) cc: The Honourable Jaclyn Symes,
Australian govt earns tick for stance on wildlife consumption
1414 Degrees — Damned Hot! But will do us good.
In the COVID-19 recovery phase innovation and new industries vital for Australia. Here’s another one forging ahead. 1414 degrees? Hot, right? That’s damned hot — hot enough to melt silicon, and store vast amounts of renewable energy. 1414 Degrees is also the name of a South Australian company developing and commercialising thermal
Poisoned pills showered on burned parks and reserves
THE RECENT BUSHFIRES in eastern Australia have had an apocalyptic impact on the natural environment and wildlife, as the whole world now knows. What most Australians and overseas wildlife friends don’t know is some of the troubling response by state authorities. The NSW government has devised a plan called The Wildlife
What it took to save the Namadgi rock art in the fires
IT TOOK A MILITARY-sized operation and ‘a couple of old heads’ to save the assets and artefacts from the fires that ravaged Namadgi National Park. [View original story below.] During the fires that were described as ‘uncontainable’ by Namadgi National Parks Area Manager Brett McNamara, park rangers and the RAF’s only
Electric vehicle green light from Macquarie Council
ELECTRIC VEHICLE ROLLOUT has not been stalled at forward-looking Macquarie City Council which announced in March that it has adopted a new electric vehicle charging strategy and has rolled out four new electric fleet cars for council. The strategy provides a framework for installing EV charging stations at key locations around
FIRE: new ‘normal’ and urgent management lessons
‘LESSONS FROM THE fires’ was the topic that attracted more than 60 people to a public meeting with a panel of three experts mid-March at Cooma’s Ex-Services Club. FROM LEFT: Jason Sharples, Kevin Tolhurst, Peter Dunn spoke in Cooma on fire and human behaviour management. (JO ODDIE) First up at the meeting,
Fire, smoke, hail: behind the scenes with first responder
Hello! Federal Government ... from the steps of Parliament House Firefighter tells People’s Climate Assembly how it is, in early January I ACKNOWLEDGE THE Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of the Canberra area and pay respect to the elders, past and present, of all Australia’s Indigenous peoples. I’d like
‘They’ love our wildlife, do ‘we’?
A RECENTLY-ARRIVED Australian resident and writer, Elle Hunt, wrote a compelling article in January expressing how people from around the world love and value Australian wildlife. The horror of our wildlife’s suffering in the recent bushfires, was the immediate impetus for her story. But it raises good questions for Australians. In the