WildCountry Media Releases
- Alpine grazing battle not over till the cows come home – permanently! - April 06, 2011
- Cattle invade Melbourne heritage icons - Environment groups call for permanent end to alpine grazing - March 21, 2011
- Concerns that aerial baiting for wild dogs will kill native animals - February 22, 2011
- Release of Wild Rivers plan for Cooper Creek brings channel country river protection one step closer - December 13, 2010
- New National Parks welcomed in Western NSW - November 14, 2010
- Release of first ever Great Western Woodlands Conservation Strategy welcomed - November 03, 2010
- Last chance to return the Murray Darling Basin to health - October 08, 2010
- New federal government must show environmental leadership - September 08, 2010
- Hello… green policies? Gillard, Abbott Missing-In-Action on nature conservation - August 03, 2010
- Senate Report rejecting anti-Wild Rivers Bill welcomed - June 23, 2010
More than 500 people filled the Box Hill Town Hall last night in a strong show of public opposition to the State Government's six-year alpine grazing trial.
A herd of four life-sized cow puppets visited Melbourne heritage icons, Parliament House and the Royal Exhibition Building, today as environment groups step up their calls for the Baillieu Government to abandon its six-year cattle grazing trial in the heritage listed Alpine National Park.
The Wilderness Society is concerned that plans for aerial baiting of wild dogs - outlined in a Victorian Government media release today - will lead to unnecessary deaths of native animals.
The Wilderness Society today welcomed the Queensland Government’s release of the draft Wild River declaration for the Cooper Creek Basin in Queensland’s Lake Eyre Basin region.
Environment groups have welcomed the news that approximately 70,000
hectares of new
National Parks will be created in western NSW by the NSW Government.
The Great Western Woodlands Collaboration (GWWC) welcomes the release of the Barnett government’s Great Western Woodlands Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation Strategy.
The Wilderness Society has welcomed the release of the guide to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, describing it as a positive step, but warns flow return targets may not be high enough to restore Australia’s great river system to health.
The Wilderness Society has welcomed the new Gillard Government, formed with the support of Independents and The Greens, as a great opportunity for environmental leadership, calling on the new Parliament to take a reality check on the question of federal intervention on Queensland’s wild rivers laws.
The Wilderness Society has criticized both Labor and the Coalition for failing to present clear, positive policies to protect our native forests, our unique natural ecosystems and marine environments, and iconic places like the Kimberley and Cape York.
The Wilderness Society has welcomed the main findings and recommendation of the final report from the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, which has been examining a Bill to overturn Queensland’s groundbreaking Wild Rivers declarations.
