Northern Australia Media Releases
- Environment groups launch advertising campaign to keep parties honest - November 24, 2011
- New Eighty Mile Beach Marine Park Plan welcomed - September 30, 2011
- Massive new bauxite mine to wipe out forests and threaten new crab species - September 14, 2011
- Rare Marine Life Abandoned By Federal Government Marine Park Plan - August 23, 2011
- What is Campbell Newman's agenda for Cape York? - June 29, 2011
- Abbott's anti-Wild Rivers Bill dead in the water - May 12, 2011
- Good law, but what's the policy? Draft tree clearing laws welcome but need tough annual caps to deliver - March 29, 2011
- Xenophon urged to reject Coalition’s tricky anti-Wild Rivers tactics - February 28, 2011
- Wilderness Society welcomes historic decision to revoke a section of National Park in Cape York - November 25, 2010
- Woodside’s Aggressive Tactics Rebuked - November 08, 2010
The Wilderness Society, the Environment Centre NT and the Australian Marine Conservation Society have launched an advertising campaign today to increase the pressure on our political leaders to protect the Territory’s unique natural environment.
WA Conservation groups today welcomed the release of the draft plan for the new Eighty Mile Beach Marine Park but warned that large scale industrialisation of the region still threatened marine life of the Pilbara and Kimberley.
Nearly 30 000 hectares of forest will be wiped out, a pristine river will be destroyed, and a new species of crab will be severely threatened if Rio Tinto’s massive new bauxite mine is approved on Cape York Peninsula. The Wilderness Society is calling on Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke to reject approval of the mine.
Some of the most vulnerable marine life in Australia, including dugongs and the newly recognised Australian snubfin dolphin, are at risk of being killed by fishing nets, oil and gas drilling and mining operations, following the Federal Government’s failure to propose large sanctuaries for marine life across Australia’s north.
The future of Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland is in question again with LNP leader Campbell Newman conducting a short trip there, but revealing nothing about his agenda for the region.
The Wilderness Society has congratulated Family First Senator Steve Fielding for putting vital environmental protection ahead of mining interests, with his surprise announcement today that he will vote against Tony Abbott's anti-Wild Rivers Bill in the Senate.
Today The Wilderness Society (TWS) cautiously welcomed the NT government's announcement to deliver on its 2008 election promise to end major destructive tree clearing, but warned that the setting of annual tree clearing caps will determine whether the Territory government was serious.
Senator Nick Xenophon faces a critical test over his voting intentions on a Coalition’s Bill to undermine protection of Queensland’s Wild Rivers, the Wilderness Society highlighted today.
The Wilderness Society has welcomed the revocation of a section of Mungkan Kandju National Park in Cape York Peninsula in anticipation of the land being returned to its Traditional Owners.
The Wilderness Society has called on Woodside investors to demand the company review its decisions in relation to major LNG projects in WA.
