Australians for Animals firmly believes Native Title cannot be allowed to trump the protection of our wildlife. The laws which protect our unique and rapidly disappearing wildlife must cover every Australian, indigenous and white alike. Endangered means endangered. There must be no slaughter. In Australia, the killing of endangered dugongs, turtles and other species under...
Category: SAVE THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
Speakers warn about the threat of ‘radical green’ groups – Gladstone Observer
Owen Jacques | 30th May 2013 4:00 PM IF EVER there was a flashing neon sign demanding the attention of anti-gas activists Lock the Gate, it was the APPEA energy conference held in Brisbane this week. But the recognisable yellow triangle of the group was nowhere to be seen. More than 3000 delegates from the...
Dugong Kill Count
Dugongs Dugong cows are devoted to their young. They stay together for the long period of calf dependency, babies usually straying no more than 1-3 body lengths from their mother. They communicate with vocalisations. Seagrass is the primary prey of dugongs. Shipping traffic, noise and human activities can disturb their feeding. Cyclone Yasi and...
AFA May 2013 Newsletter
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...
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...