Call for Murray-Darling rescue plan funding
The Australian Conservation Foundation wants state and federal governments to commit $150 million-a-year for ten years to a rescue plan for the Murray-Darling basin.

The Australian Conservation Foundation wants state and federal governments to commit $150 million-a-year for ten years to a rescue plan for the Murray-Darling basin.

An audit of Australia’s major electricity generators by WWF-Australia has confirmed they are the nation’s most significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.

The Federal Government has invested $16 million in environmental and sustainable agricultural work in regional Queensland, through the Natural Heritage Trust.

The Australian Conservation Foundation has expressed disappointment that the Senate failed to include crucial amendments as it passed heritage protection bills. The ALP, Greens and Australian Democrats failed in their bid to place more checks on new greenhouse polluting developments.

The WWF has declared Australia?s Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve a ‘Gift to the Earth’. At some 6.5 million hectares, it is the largest fully protected marine reserve in the world.

Rehabilitation work has begun at the Jabiluka
mine in Kakadu. Environment groups are pleased that 50,000 tonnes of uranium ore will be re-buried at the site to help protect nearby wetlands.

The Democrats claim beachfront at Victoria’s Point Nepean may be open to private development under the Federal Government plans to sell the area.