Murrumbidgee Bearing Brunt of Climate Change

ACF

A new report predicting climate change will seriously reduce inflows to the Murrumbidgee River – a major tributary of the Murray – highlights the need for the Federal Government to fast-track spending of the $3.1 billion set aside to buy back water for the ailing rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin.

posted by monica on June 17, 2008 at 5:49 pm · filed under

ACF wants Gov to deliver on radioactive waste dump promise

ACF

The Australian Conservation Foundation has called on the Federal Government to make public its schedule for repealing the previous government’s Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005.

posted by monica on June 10, 2008 at 4:33 pm · filed under

85% Polled Want Alternative to Traveston Dam

ACF

Eighty five per cent of Brisbane residents agree “the Queensland Government should consider alternatives to building Traveston Dam” according to a poll released by the Australian Conservation Foundation on World Turtle Day.

posted by monica on May 27, 2008 at 8:01 pm · filed under

ACF Comments on Budget

ACF

The Australian Conservation Foundation has commended the Federal Government for solid funding of its climate change election commitments and urged it to take the next step by the end of this year by setting a strong, science based 2020 target to cut emissions.

posted by monica on May 20, 2008 at 9:08 pm · filed under

Dredging will destroy unique underwater sponge community

The destruction of more than 100 species of underwater sponges found nowhere else in the world will begin at Port Phillip Heads, leading environment groups said today.

The Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA) and ACF said the unique underwater sponge community, which includes 115 unique species in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, would soon be buried under rock as a dredger deepens the bay.

posted by monica on April 8, 2008 at 11:17 am · filed under

Funding for national parks and reserves

The Australian Conservation Foundation has welcomed a significant increase in funding for the National Reserve System for Australia’s network of protected areas.

posted by monica on April 1, 2008 at 10:58 pm · filed under

NSW joins VIC in GE canola growing: Greenpeace angry

Two days after the New South Wales Government officially announced that it would join Victoria in commercially growing GE canola, Greenpeace activists entered a genetically engineered (GE) canola field trial near the border of South Australia and unfurled a giant 20m x 30m banner in the field, reading ‘GE CANOLA KNOWS NO BORDERS’.

posted by monica on March 17, 2008 at 10:27 am · filed under