Northern Territory Updates
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Saving our tropical sealife - October 24, 2011
In order to protect marine life across northern Australia, the Wilderness Society has helped form a powerful new national alliance: Save Our Tropical Sealife. The alliance of 12 of Australia’s leading environment groups is working to ensure tropical sea life is fully protected in a world-class network of marine sanctuaries across Australia’s north and north west.
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Why damn northern Australia? - September 20, 2011
How many hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars is Tony Abbott prepared to pour down the bottomless pit labelled northern development to keep Barnaby Joyce and Bill Heffernan happy? Unfortunately it looks like the sky is the limit following reports that Team Abbott is refloating harebrain schemes to farm northern Australia by damming the rivers of the Top End.
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'Death nets' sweeping Australia's oceans clean of life - August 11, 2011
Fishing nets as wide as eight kilometres and bottom trawling are devastating Australia’s marine life and undermining a Federal Government promise to create marine sanctuaries.
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Messages in the sand - World Turtle Day 2011 - May 31, 2011
Over 500 people Australia-wide took part in World Turtle Day 2011, creating sand turtles on their local beaches in support of marine sanctuaries across northern Australia. At dozens of locations around the country, everyone had a great day full of sea, sun and sand turtles.
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Oceans '11: Our best chance for ocean protection - May 18, 2011
Our Northern waters aren’t protected and the unique marine life that abounds in them is threatened by over fishing, oil and gas exploration and inappropriate development. Right now, Environment Minister Tony Burke is deciding which areas of our Northern waters will be protected.
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Managing Sea Country for conservation and culture - March 23, 2011
Approximately 85% of the Northern Territory coastline belongs to its Aboriginal Traditional Owners, who have cared for their sea country for millennia. This practice continues today in the work of more than a dozen Aboriginal sea ranger groups who draw on both traditional culture and conservation science as they patrol and manage vast stretches of our remote northern coastline.
