A mass stranding event at Upstart Bay resulting in about 80 adult greens coming ashore dead and dying. All the turtles were healthy prior to beaching with good fat levels so clearly not starving. Pathology and histology shows nothing. Combined with ongoing turtle deaths in and around Gladstone, the trend is a major concern. Dead...
BUTCHER BIRDS – GLORIOUS SONGSTERS
Every morning our family is greeted by butcher birds waiting for breakfast. We live in an area which is a year round home range for the birds and we only feed small amounts so that they are not dependent. But such joy ! Each bird has a personality of its own. ” Flut” as I’ve...
US GROUPS LEGAL CHALLENGE OVER GREAT BARRIER REEF
For Immediate Release, August 2, 2012 Contact: Sarah Uhlemann, Center for Biological Diversity, (206) 327-2344 Doug Norlen, Pacific Environment, (202) 465-1650 Teri Shore, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (707) 934-7081 Lawsuit Launched Against Multi-billion-dollar U.S. Subsidy of Fossil Fuel Projects in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Facilities Would Threaten Sea Turtles, Other Endangered Species SAN FRANCISCO— Three...
CAPE YORK WILD RIVERS PROTECTION TO BE DITCHED
POOR FELLA, MY COUNTRY. Campbell Newman’s LNP government intends to scrap the wild river preservation law in Cape York, instead giving priority to mining and development. This decision is an absolute tragedy for the Cape York environment, for the indigenous people who supported protection of country and for the environmental groups who fought so hard...
JAMES PRICE POINT WA DISASTER FOR WHALES
The WA government recently gave the initial go-ahead to Woodside Pty Ltd to develop a massive gas hub at James Price Point. Imagine this. 1500 ships a year servicing the gas hub. That’s four ships a day, 28 ships a week in a pristine area with very little shipping traffic. This development is nothing short...
AUSTRALIANS FOR ANIMALS AND GLADSTONE PORTS CORPORATION MISLEADING POLL
National animal rights group dredges up poll complaint. QUEENSLAND TELEGRAPH. By John Mikkelsen AN environmental animal rights group has expressed serious concerns over aspects of the massive Gladstone Harbour dredging program, including a misleading media release claiming most Australians supported the dredging project. Co-ordinator of Australians for Animals Inc, Sue Arnold, has complained to both...
Ocean Sounds – Whale Song
This is fascinating. The Ocean Conservation Research website has published a library of ocean sounds. You can hear and view audiographs of Whale Song and even the sounds that whales themselves hear like the manmade, “Acoustic Harassment Device”. What the…!!!! http://ocr.org/sounds/
HUMPBACK WHALE DISASTER IN Western Australia
News reports that WAgovernment has given consent to Woodside to construct the James Price Point Gas Hub in the Kimberleys is a disaster. Dr Paul Vogel, Chair of the West Australian Environmental Protection Authority made the decision after all other members of his panel disqualified themselves. Claiming to have imposed strict conditions on the...
GREENS AND HUMPBACK WHALES
At the IWC meeting in Panama, the Federal Minister for the Environment voted in support of a quota for a Caribbean nation who will, as a result of his and others’ votes, kill 24 Humpbacks from 2013-2018. St Vincents & The Grenadines has a long history of infractions at the IWC as its ” whalers”...