Our May 2013 Newsletter is available now as a printable PDF. Please click HERE or follow this link: https://www.australiansforanimals.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Australians_for_Animals_Newsletter_May_2013_Email.pdf Articles included: UNDERWATER NOISE-THE ELEPHANT IN THE OCEAN Noise has a devastating impact on the marine environment. Acoustic signals can travel long distances depending on the state of the tides, wind, seabed and other parameters. Christopher...
BOB IRWIN FOUNDATION LETTER TO TONY BURKE ON INDIGENOUS HUNTING
BOB IRWIN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION To The Right Honourable Tony Burke MP, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities Dear Sir, We write to you today on behalf of the recently formed animal coalition (list attached). This coalition consists of some of the largest leading animal rights groups in Australia. It was formed...
RALLY AGAINST HUNTING IN NATIONAL PARKS – IMPORTANT !
From: Campaign Volunteer campaignvolunteer@npansw.org.au Message: The National Parks Association of NSW wishes to share with you information about the rally against hunting in national parks being held in Sydney 18th April 2013. Rally: “No Hunting in National Parks” SYDNEY When: 12:15pm 18th APRIL 2013 Speakers: Bob Brown and Bob Debus and many more Where: Convene...
DUGONG HUNTING – A CRUEL PRACTICE
8 April 2013, 6.13am AEST In the name of culture: dugong hunting is simply cruel Many Australians are rightly appalled by the slaughter conducted by the Japanese whaling fleet under the guise of “scientific research”. This is not only because whaling is cruel but also because whales are iconic, have high mammalian intelligence and are endangered...
Arrow Pipeline Approval may “In Danger” the Great Barrier Reef
Arrow Pipeline Approval may “In Danger” the Great Barrier Reef The approval of the Arrow Pipeline by the State government will have environmental consequences that may be more far reaching than anticipated. UNESCO is watching the state government and federal government actions in the lead up to its decision whether to put the Great...
Cairns (AAP)
Cairns (AAP) The Great Barrier Reef will become little more than a mass of seaweed if the development of coal ports on the Queensland coast continues, a marine expert says. Professor Callum Roberts says mining firms don’t care about the reef, and the Queensland government needs to do more to protect ‘this global icon’. ‘Most...
Queensland Telegraph – ‘Resource consultants acting like high paid super models’ by John Mikkelsen
Queensland Telegraph – ‘Resource consultants acting like high paid super models’ by John Mikkelsen AN ENVIRONMENTAL medicine specialist has compared consultants working on major resource developments with “supermodels who won’t get out of bed for less than $5000 a day”. The claim was made by Save the Reef spokesman Dr Andrew Jeremijenko, an occupational physician...
The Observer – Dump in sea or pull out, MP told
IT could be a show stopper. North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation has told a Central Queensland MP the organisation has no option but to dump dredge spoil from Abbot Point into the sea. The proposal to deposit three million cubic tonnes of spoil as part of the port’s $6.9 billion expansion has been contentious since it...
The Observer – Bill aims to prevent uranium being shipped through reef
A BILL to outlaw new ports on the Great Barrier Reef will be introduced by the Greens in parliament in Canberra on Wednesday. Queensland Senator Larissa Waters said she would introduce the bill to make law the recommendations of UNESCO, after the international regulator visited Australia last year. It also aimed to prevent any shipping...
Herald Sun – Climate change, coal terminals … Great Barrier Reef under constant threat
Herald Sun – Climate change, coal terminals … Great Barrier Reef under constant threat CLIMATE change and the development coal terminals on the Queensland coast could permanently destroy the Great Barrier Reef, a marine expert warns. In his keynote speech at the David Thomas Conservation Oration in Sydney on Monday, Professor Callum Roberts will say...