by Admin | Apr 1, 2015 | Articles, Conservation
An aboriginal group in central Queensland is attempting to prevent Australia’s largest mine from being built on its ancestral land. Representatives for the Wangan and Jagalingou people have formally rejected an Indigenous land use agreement which would allow the huge...
by Admin | Sep 19, 2014 | Sustainability
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) recommended that Western Australia’s controversial shark culling program should not be extended, citing that there is a “high degree of scientific uncertainty” about the impact of the drumlines on the great white shark...
by Admin | Aug 5, 2014 | Articles, Environmental hazards
Greg Hunt, Australia’s Minister for the Environment, recently approved a $16.5 billion resources project that will go towards creating one of the largest coalmines in the in the world in Australia. The massive “Carmichael Project” will be overseen by the Indian mining...
by Admin | May 16, 2014 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation
Queensland, Australia, is home to the world’s smallest kangaroos—at least for now. The tiny breed of animals seems to be going extinct. The discovery of musky rat-kangaroo fossils suggests these tiny marsupials can’t survive beyond tropical rainforests, which means...
by Admin | Aug 2, 2013 | Articles, Conservation, Environmental hazards
On Monday, July 22, the U.S. Navy was conducting a training exercise in the Southern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Australia. The plan was to drop four unarmed bombs on the Townshend Island bombing range, but instead the two naval jets dropped four thousand pounds...