Queensland Media Releases
- Mining companies must reveal water plans for the Wenlock - December 01, 2008
- Wilderness Society urges action on Cape York wild river protection - November 21, 2008
- Cape York critters warn Cape Alumina investors of impacts of bauxite mine - November 14, 2008
- Push for World Heritage protection for Cape York - October 08, 2008
- Wilderness Society welcomes the greening of the Queensland parliament - October 05, 2008
- Bligh on the environment: broad targets welcome, but details and action required - September 08, 2008
- Shoalwater Bay lives another day - September 06, 2008
- Australia’s largest tropical rainforest wilderness protected in Cape York - August 06, 2008
- Minister Garrett congratulated for protecting the cassowaries of Mission Beach - July 29, 2008
- Protection for Cape York rivers a win-win for jobs and environment - July 23, 2008
The Wilderness Society calls on bauxite mining companies Rio Tinto and Cape Alumina to come clean about their water plans for the wild Wenlock River on Cape York Peninsula. TWS is concerned that the companies have been seeking special exemptions from the Queensland Government’s Wild River protection policies for the river before nomination plans have even been released.
The Wilderness Society calls for greater protection of the Aurukun wetlands and more Indigenous Wild River Rangers, as part of the Queensland Government’s proposed wild river protection plans for three Cape York river basins.
Outside a Cape Alumina meeting held in Cairns last night, critters from Cape York warned potential investors of the serious environmental threat that the company’s large bauxite mine proposal poses to the Wenlock River and its surrounding environment.
A leading Australian environment group, The Wilderness Society, will seek the support of the World Conservation Congress in Spain this week for a World Heritage nomination for Cape York. A resolution will be voted on later this week at the Congress in Barcelona urging the Federal and Queensland Governments to continue to work with Traditional Owners to develop a nomination and seek their final consent for a World Heritage listing.
The Wilderness Society welcomes Queensland’s first Green Parliamentarian following the shock decision by the sitting Labor member for Indooroopilly, Ronan Lee, to join the Greens. TWS commented that this event highlighted the continued growth in importance of environmental issues in Queensland politics.
The Wilderness Society Queensland welcomes the climate change and environment targets announced by Premier Anna Bligh but has called for more detail about how these targets will be met.
The Wilderness Society today congratulates Commonwealth Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, for his strong support for the ongoing protection of the wilderness and wetlands of Shoalwater Bay in central Queensland, through rejecting an application for the establishment of a major coal port and rail line through the Shoalwater wilderness..
The Wilderness Society applauds the announcement of the protection of Australia’s largest tropical-rainforest wilderness in Cape York - the Aboriginal-owned Kulla (McIlwraith Range) National Park.
The Wilderness Society congratulates the Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, for protecting the endangered cassowaries of Mission Beach by using his powers under Federal environmental legislation to reject an application to clear cassowary habitat for residential sub-division in far north Queensland.
A Queensland Government proposal to protect three of Cape York’s major rivers would create a win/win
for the globally significant natural environment of Cape York and for future economic
growth in Far North Queensland.
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