Northern Territory Media Releases
- Environment groups launch advertising campaign to keep parties honest - November 24, 2011
- Vatskalis all at sea on new marine parks - October 19, 2011
- Australia's north and northwest teeming with rare and threatened marine life – new reports - October 18, 2011
- 12 months to polling day, environment groups put parties on notice - September 05, 2011
- Rare Marine Life Abandoned By Federal Government Marine Park Plan - August 23, 2011
- 'Death nets' sweeping Australia's oceans clean of life - August 02, 2011
- Good law, but what's the policy? Draft tree clearing laws welcome but need tough annual caps to deliver - March 29, 2011
- Wilderness Society calls on new Ministers to take decisive action on the environment - September 11, 2010
- Environment Groups welcome Gunns’ frank assessment on native forests - September 09, 2010
- The future of our environment hangs ‘in the balance’ - August 19, 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.
Fisheries Minister Kon Vatskialis has irresponsibly preempted the Commonwealth’s marine bioregional process by his unconstructive comments yesterday, following the launch of a report by conservation groups highlighting marine icons in Australia’s north.
Two new reports released today, Wild Blue Yonder: Fifteen underwater places for protection in Australia's north west and Twelve Tropical Sea Treasures: Underwater icons of Northern Australia reveal critical sites for rare and threatened sealife off Australia's north and northwest coast.
With just twelve months until the NT election, the Environment Centre NT and the Wilderness Society and the Australian Marine Conservation Society are putting pressure on our political parties and independents to lift their environmental credentials.
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.
Fishing nets as wide as eight kilometres and trawling of the seafloor are devastating slow growing marine life and the damage to Australia’s oceans is undermining a Federal Government commitment to safeguard critical breeding and feeding areas.
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.
The Wilderness Society welcomes the appointment by Prime Minister Gillard of two fresh faces to key environment portfolios, as part of new Federal Ministry, and stress to the new Ministers this is not the time for half measures.
The Wilderness Society, the Australian Conservation Foundation and Environment Tasmania welcomed the long awaited announcement by Gunns to move out of native forest logging and work with the community and conservation groups.
The Wilderness Society today released its final assessment of the Parties’ policies on the environment this Election. Our conclusion is that the two biggest parties, the ALP and the Liberal-National Coalition, have been missing-in-action on the environment this election.
