Dugongs Dugong cows are devoted to their young. They stay together for the long period of calf dependency, babies usually straying no more than 1-3 body lengths from their mother. They communicate with vocalisations. Seagrass is the primary prey of dugongs. Shipping traffic, noise and human activities can disturb their feeding. Cyclone Yasi and...
Our May 2013 Newsletter is available now as a printable PDF. Please click HERE or follow this link: https://www.australiansforanimals.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Australians_for_Animals_Newsletter_May_2013_Email.pdf Articles included: UNDERWATER NOISE-THE ELEPHANT IN THE OCEAN Noise has a devastating impact on the marine environment. Acoustic signals can travel long distances depending on the state of the tides, wind, seabed and other parameters. Christopher...
Arrow Pipeline Approval may “In Danger” the Great Barrier Reef The approval of the Arrow Pipeline by the State government will have environmental consequences that may be more far reaching than anticipated. UNESCO is watching the state government and federal government actions in the lead up to its decision whether to put the Great...
Cairns (AAP) The Great Barrier Reef will become little more than a mass of seaweed if the development of coal ports on the Queensland coast continues, a marine expert says. Professor Callum Roberts says mining firms don’t care about the reef, and the Queensland government needs to do more to protect ‘this global icon’. ‘Most...
Queensland Telegraph – ‘Resource consultants acting like high paid super models’ by John Mikkelsen AN ENVIRONMENTAL medicine specialist has compared consultants working on major resource developments with “supermodels who won’t get out of bed for less than $5000 a day”. The claim was made by Save the Reef spokesman Dr Andrew Jeremijenko, an occupational physician...
IT could be a show stopper. North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation has told a Central Queensland MP the organisation has no option but to dump dredge spoil from Abbot Point into the sea. The proposal to deposit three million cubic tonnes of spoil as part of the port’s $6.9 billion expansion has been contentious since it...
A BILL to outlaw new ports on the Great Barrier Reef will be introduced by the Greens in parliament in Canberra on Wednesday. Queensland Senator Larissa Waters said she would introduce the bill to make law the recommendations of UNESCO, after the international regulator visited Australia last year. It also aimed to prevent any shipping...
Herald Sun – Climate change, coal terminals … Great Barrier Reef under constant threat CLIMATE change and the development coal terminals on the Queensland coast could permanently destroy the Great Barrier Reef, a marine expert warns. In his keynote speech at the David Thomas Conservation Oration in Sydney on Monday, Professor Callum Roberts will say...
Govt not opposed to uranium being shipped over reef The Gladstone Observer THE State Government is not opposed in principle to uranium being shipped from a Queensland port through the Great Barrier Reef, Natural Resources and Mines Minister Andrew Cripps says. Mr Cripps was commenting on Monday after a six-person Uranium Implementation Committee returned its...
New science panel looks at water, not sick fish by John Mikkelsen – The Queensland Telegraph SPECULATION has been running hot over membership of the State Government’s new science panel to oversee Gladstone Harbour water quality, with claims there is no focus on the health of marine animals. Makeup of the panel under the leadership...