ON JANUARY 23rd 2020 southern Australia’s Black Summer bush fires swept through the Peak View district between Captains Flat and Cooma. They caused a widely-reported twofold disaster. On this day Two Thumbs Wildlife Trust Koala Sanctuary was totally enveloped in the blaze, many native animals perished and tragically an air tanker
Animal Welfare
Why Orange Roughy should be off the table
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
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,
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
Tales of wombat ‘heroes’ have gone viral. Unfortunately, they’re not true
IF YOU’VE BEEN following the bushfire crisis on social media and elsewhere, you may have seen reports of benevolent wombats herding other animals to shelter into their fire-proof burrows. These stories went quickly viral — probably reflecting the appetite for good news after the horrors of the bushfire crisis. However the
Before deadly fires, lethal wildlife ‘management’. Call for halt.
’Tis the season to celebrate Christian values — let’s share, find our compassion again
THEY ARE REFUGEES too. The wildlife, dispossessed, shot out, and now, with their food, water and remaining habitat dried out and burned, even more in need: those that didn’t die outright in the flames. Let’s look more widely. To our international shame, we haven’t, as a country, been very charitable to
Like other Australian Wildlife: birdlife is in deep trouble
AS I LOOK around the Australian continent what I see happening to Australia’s birdlife is deeply troubling. In Victoria there is now a mounting tension among the section of the community that cares about birdlife as we wait to hear if the Victorian Labor Government calls yet another duck shooting season. Mass-scale
Scientists re-counted Australia’s extinct species, and the result is devastating
IT’S WELL ESTABLISHED that unsustainable human activity is damaging the health of the planet. The way we use Earth threatens our future and that of many animals and plants. Species extinction is an inevitable end point. It’s important that the loss of Australian nature be quantified accurately. To date, putting an
Criminalising compassion and truthfulness
Governments aim to stop protest for animals and the environment In the wake of NSW, Qld and federal governments setting draconian fines and trespass laws for protesting against environmental destruction, like new mining projects, governments and major political parties are targeting animal activists who shed light on inhumane practices on farm.