Media Releases
- Big irrigator profits destroying the Murray River - February 01, 2012
- Billboards urge SA politicians to stand up for the Murray - February 01, 2012
- Cows kicked out of alps but national parks still need national protection - January 30, 2012
- Emergency heritage listing lodged to protect Cape York from wave of mining development - January 30, 2012
- Investors warned off new Kimberley coal project - January 29, 2012
- Environment issues key in the Queensland election - January 24, 2012
- Burke has no choice but to reject plan - January 18, 2012
- PM’s forest meetings need to deliver on the agreement - January 16, 2012
- O’Farrell called to act on 10,000 litre untreated coal seam gas water spill - January 13, 2012
- Governments fail to deliver on Forests Agreement - January 12, 2012
Record profits of over $8 billion announced by “big irrigation” come at a huge cost to the environment and to the people of South Australia, who depend on a healthy Murray River, said the Wilderness Society.
Environment groups today launch a campaign calling on South Australia’s federal MPs to represent the interests of their constituents by speaking up for the health of the Murray.
The Wilderness Society welcomes the decision by Environment Minister Tony Burke to use National Heritage laws to stop the Victorian Government’s plan to reintroduce cattle into Victoria’s iconic Alpine National Park.
The Wilderness Society (TWS) has sought emergency National Heritage listing for four areas on Cape York Peninsula under serious threat from destructive mining proposals (see attached map and table).
The Wilderness Society has today issued an Alert warning investors of the risks of a new Kimberley coal project. Coal miner Rey Resources faces objections to its mining lease in the Mining Warden's court tomorrow.
Environmental issues such as the retention of Wild River protections, finalising a World Heritage nomination for Cape York Peninsula, and keeping native woodlands and forests safe from land clearing will be key focuses in the Queensland election, the Wilderness Society said today.
The Wilderness Society has called on the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) to acknowledge its failure to show a scientific foundation for its draft plan to return only 2750 Gigalitres (GL) of water to the Murray-Darling, as highlighted by the Wentworth Group today.
The Wilderness Society and Florentine Protection Society today called on the Prime Minister to use her meetings with Tasmanian colleagues to take control of the Tasmanian forests Agreement and urgently implement the agreed outcome that logging would stop in identified forest areas.
Environment groups are calling on Premier Barry O’Farrell to take action and stop coal seam gas work in the Pilliga State Forest, as gas giant Santos today released a statement admitting that 10,000L of untreated coal seam gas water spilled into the Pilliga Forest in June 2011.
Environment groups said the conservation agreement released today by the Tasmanian and Commonwealth governments did not adequately deliver the first key conservation outcome of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) and urged them to end logging in these unique and important forests.
