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Sea Shepherd Prepares to Mount a Major Offensive Against Whaling
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Environment  (tags: whales, major offensive, against, whaling, Japanese Whaling, Australia, IWC, Sea Shepherd )

In a Mirr
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- 24 days ago - youtube.com
"This will be our most dramatic, most confrontational, most controversial and most effective campaign yet. We intend to save more whales next time than we did last time and that is a goal we fill confident in achieving"
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Hatchets Are Buried as the Chainsaws Fall Silent in Australian Native Forest
Environment  (tags: australia, victoria, conservation, forestry )


- 44 days ago - theage.com.au
The last of the chainsaws are due to fall silent as the final licence to log in the Otways expires, ending years of bitter confrontations between loggers and conservationists in the native forest 100 miles south-west of Melbourne.
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The Kimberley -- What's the Fuss? A Region as Vast as It Is Beautiful in North-West Australia, Faces Imminent Exploitation
Environment  (tags: conservation, protection, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, forests, habitat, humans, nature, wildlife, australia, The Kimberley, north-west Australia, exploitation )

In a Mirr
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- 58 days ago - au.youtube.com
Right now, those decisions are being made on our behalf, without consulting us. Do we want the resources exploited for the dollars and for the skysrapers they'll help build, or do we want to slow down this exploitation of the Kimberley? It's NOT inevitabl
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Action Alert: Protest Australia's Continued Ancient Forest Logging in the Face of Abrupt Climate Change
Environment  (tags: environment, Tasmania, climate-change, logging, Australia, forests, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, trees, wildlife )

Cher
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- 77 days ago - forests.org
Australia's new "climate friendly" government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end
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Australia. Mass Coral Spawning Expected at End of Month
Environment  (tags: coral reefs, australia, spawning, conservation, environment, ecosystems, habitat, nature, oceans )

John
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- 112 days ago - bymnews.com
One of the most spectacular natural events in Western Australia - the annual mass autumn spawning of corals - will occur off parts of the coast in the last week of March.
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Bottled Water 'Bad as Smoking' - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, environment, Ian Kiernan, clean up australia, pollution, bottled water, water, ecosystems, CO2emissions )

Chrissy
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- 140 days ago - news.com.au
DRINKING bottled water is so anti-environment that it should be made as unfashionable as smoking. A British study has found that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometre.
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Future of Our Reef Is Bleak
Environment  (tags: australia, ecosystems, great barrier reef, habitat, habitatdestruction, pollution, water, weather, protection, humans, nature, oceans, globalwarming, endangered, destruction )

Jacquelin
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- 142 days ago - news.com.au
SCIENTISTS predict the Great Barrier Reef faces four possible scenarios by 2050 with everything from a "catastrophic" climatic event to global warfare. CSIRO project leaders Iris Bohnet and Erin Bohensky this week warned the future of the Reef largely
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Call for National Container Refund - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, clean up australia, bottles, cans, refund, nation, garbage )

Chrissy
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- 156 days ago - news.com.au
CLEAN Up Australia has urged governments across the nation to follow the example of South Australia and introduce a national drinks container refund scheme. The organisation's annual rubbish report, released today, showed nearly 40 per cent of the 8000 to
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Sea Shepherd Being Pursued By Armed Japanese Coast Guard
Environment  (tags: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Steve Irwin, set course, Australia, refuel, armed Japanese spyship, Fukuyoshi Maru 68, in pursuit, Capt Paul Watson, questions, Oceanic Viking un-armed, Japanese spyship armed, HOW MANY LAWS BROKEN BY WHALERS? )

Tony
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- 159 days ago - seashepherd.org
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Steve Irwin is enroute back to Melbourne from the Southern Ocean. And the ship is not returning alone. "We continue to be pursued by the Japanese vessel Fukuyoshi Maru No. 68," said Captain Paul Watson.
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Irrigators Slam Extra Murray Flows - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, drought, irrigators, murray-darling, rivers, floodplains, trees, environment, ecosystems, protection )

Chrissy
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- 167 days ago - abc.net.au
South Australian irrigators have reacted angrily to the Murray-Darling Basin Commission's decision to release environmental water flows onto the Chowilla floodplain in the Riverland.
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Water Released to Save River Red Gums - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, river, drought, murray river, murray-darling, gum trees, trees )

Chrissy
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- 169 days ago - news.theage.com.au
More than four gigalitres of water will be released down the Murray River to protect significant 200-year-old river red gums and wetland areas hit by the drought. The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) said 2.6gl would be released into the Chowilla
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Mission Part Accomplished - Australias' Climate Change Warrior
Environment  (tags: australia, prof. tim flannery, climate-change, conservation, environment, humans, protection, globalwarming )

Chrissy
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- 178 days ago - theage.com.au
ON A summer's day in 1965, nine-year-old Tim Flannery was scrambling among the rocks along the shore of Port Phillip Bay when his hand chanced upon a tiny fossil. "It was a beautiful little sea urchin. I can still see it there in the palm of my hand,"
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Submersible to Probe New Coral Depths - Australia/USA
Environment  (tags: australia, coral reefs, tasmania, global warming, climate change, submersible, sumbmarine )

Chrissy
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 179 days ago - news.theage.com.au
Scientists will send an unmanned submersible to track climate change by studying coral at unprecedented depths in Australian waters. In the US-Australian project, the submersible will dive to depths of 2.5km in seas south of Tasmania to locate and film
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North West Braces for Another Cyclone
Environment  (tags: australia, weather, climate, cyclone, HabitatDestruction, environment )

Jacquelin
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 185 days ago - news.com.au
A BLUE alert has been issued for coastal communities north of Kalumburu in WA as newly named Tropical Cyclone Helen intensifies off the coast. People in or near the communities of Kalumburu, Wyndham, Oombulgurri and Faraway Bay should start taking prec
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More Rain to Hit SE Qld Dams: Forecasters
Environment  (tags: weather, qld, australia, rain, dams, increasing, GoodNews, climate-change, climate )

Ali
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 187 days ago - weatherzone.com.au
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting more rain across south-east Queensland today, especially over the three major dams. Senior forecaster Gavin Holcombe says light showers will increase to heavier rainfall this afternoon and tonight.
 

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