Australia’s Unique Birds Slipping Away
CANBERRA, Australia, February 26, 2009 (ENS) – A five-year report card on the state of Australia’s birds by Birds Australia shows many of the continent’s unique native species are in decline due to habitat loss, drought and introduced predators. Environment Minister Peter Garrett launched the report at Parliament House today, saying, “The State of Australia’s [...]
Read More »World Wetlands Day: An Australian Wetland in Crisis
CANBERRA, Australia, February 2, 2009 (ENS) – Today, Australia’s Labor government used the occasion of World Wetlands Day to slam the former Liberal government for its treatment of the country’s 65 wetlands that are officially designated under the Ramsar treaty. World Wetlands Day marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands on [...]
Read More »Australia Delays Decision on Giant Tasmanian Pulp Mill
CANBERRA, Australia, January 5, 2008 (ENS) – Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has delayed announcing his decision on a proposal for a new $2.2 billion pulp mill in northern Tasmania, saying that further environmental studies must be conducted. The minister was widely expected to approve the proposal today, but in a surprise move Garrett instead [...]
Read More »Cooperative Spirit Emerges at Whaling Commission Meeting
SANTIAGO, Chile, June 24, 2008 (ENS) – With whaling nations and their allies on one side and pro-conservation nations on the other, annual meetings of the International Whaling Commission have been increasingly gridlocked and acrimonious. But today at the 60th annual IWC meeting in Santiago there was a breakthrough. The 81 member governments agreed on [...]
Read More »Alice Springs Becomes Australia’s Newest Solar City
ALICE SPRINGS, Northern Territory, Australia, March 10, 2008 (ENS) – Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett today launched the $37 million Alice Springs Solar City, which will help the local community save energy, save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the launch Garrett joined Northern Territory Chief Minister Paul Henderson to open the [...]
Read More »Australia Wants Japanese Whalers Out of Whale Sanctuary
CANBERRA, Australia, December 20, 2007 (ENS) – With less than three weeks in office, the new Australian government is planning diplomatic and legal action against Japan’s so-called “research” whaling. Much Japanese whaling takes place in the Australian Whale Sanctuary in the Southern Ocean, where the Japanese whaling fleet is right now, pursuing whales. Peter Garrett [...]
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