Overfishing has driven the global abundance of oceanic sharks and rays to decline by nearly three-quarters (71%) in the past 50 years, says a global study published today in Nature. With endangered sharks, including the scalloped hammerhead, still being legally consumed in Australia,…
Sea Shepherd has expanded its international marine conservation efforts, launching a new collaboration with Conflict Islands Conservation Initiative (CICI) to protect critically endangered turtles from poaching in the Conflict Islands, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CICI has been…
Container deposit schemes in NSW and ACT have become a way for charities and community groups to fundraise, utilising the 10c refund given for each bottle, can or carton taken to a return point. In NSW alone, nearly $11 million has already…
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) is encouraging seafood lovers to take the pledge to #GiveFlakeABreak and choose sustainable alternatives to flake when they visit their local chippy this summer. In Australia there is no legal obligation to call shark meat, commonly known as ‘flake’, for…
A new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature names eastern Australia among 24 global deforestation fronts – the only developed nation on the list. In 2015, WWF’s Saving Forests at Risk analysis identified 11 global deforestation fronts including eastern Australia. In WWF’s new report Deforestation…
The Bob Brown Foundation (BBF) is pleased to announce that over one thousand submissions have been sent to the Australian Antarctic Division opposing plans for a 2.7km long concrete runway to be constructed at Davis station, Antarctica. The proposed runway would have…
Plans for cleaning up the site of the Ranger uranium mine, which closes in January – and incorporating it into Australia’s largest national park, Kakadu – are being hampered by an unrealistic five-year rehabilitation time frame, uncertainty over funding and fears about…
More than 60,000 koalas were among the animals impacted by last summer’s bushfire crisis, according to a report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia.…
New federal legislation to allow logging of native forests despite current court rulings of illegality is a rort against the majority of Australians who want the forests and wildlife saved, according to former Greens leader Bob Brown.…
The Bob Brown Foundation is taking a robust approach to protect the Antarctic with two new campaigners; Alistair Allan and Carola Rackete. These new positions will enable Bob Brown Foundation to extend its campaigning beyond Australia to protect the world’s greatest wilderness…
