THE Australian Marine Conservation Society and World Wide Fund for Nature Australia have welcomed Australia in its support for a global agreement to finally rid the world of plastic pollution. An equivalent of a garbage truck’s worth of plastic enters the ocean…
SEPTEMBER is Debris Month of Action, with this year campaigners drawing particular attention to two huge threats, plastics and benthic litter, to our water environments. The month is an initiative of the PADI AWARE Foundation, a publicly funded not-for-profit global charity whose…
THE Morrison Government thumbed up a $50 million grant for a drilling program in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin on August 25, 2021. Just a day before the decision, the Senate released an interim report on the inquiry into oil and gas…
Asthma Australia is taking a robust approach to bring awareness to deadly air pollution levels in Australia as today kicks off National Asthma Week. ‘Air Nutrition – you are what you breathe’ encourages Australians to think differently about what they are breathing…
EXPORTING ants from Australia poses a global biohazard risk a new investigation by the Invasive Species Council has found. International and Australian bio-networks may now face the threat of over 500 species currently obtainable online with highly dangerous and invasive ants available…
IT might have a ferocious appetite and a sex drive to match, but the endangered silver-headed antechinus has become the new poster boy of post-bushfire wildlife recovery. In a May-June search funded by WWF Australia, researchers from the Queensland University of Technology…
AUSTRALIAN farmers have welcomed a new agricultural visa scheme announced Monday designed to fill disastrous labour shortages in the horticulture industry despite the pointed criticism from the federal opposition. A joint statement from Labor’s shadow minister for immigration and citizenship Senator Kristina Keneally,…
A RECENT spate of pet food-related poisonings has today prompted RSPCA Australia, Australian Veterinary Association and the Pet Food Industry Association of Australia to call for an overdue mandatory pet food standard – almost three years after it was recommended by a…
On a tiny island in the South Pacific, the Phillip Island centipede or ‘Cormocephalus coynei’ stalks through the undergrowth on humid nights. Growing up to almost a foot in length the diet of the exclusively nocturnal arthropod varies wildly, using two pincer-like…
CERVINE pests are destroying the environment, farms, Aboriginal heritage and the economy due to the authorities’ inaction on the Apple Isle. The claim in a new report issued by The Invasive Species Council accompanied a warning that a million feral deer could…
