SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Community members are being urged to dispose of fishing tackle safely after another dolphin in Whyalla has been entangled in fishing line recently.
www.epnrm.sa.gov.au/
The Chairman of the Australian Council of National Trusts, Dr Graeme Blackman OAM, announced the top places in Australia nominated as being most at risk under the 2012 ‘Our Heritage at Risk' program.
www.nationaltrust.org.au
On a recent working bee with Prospect Hill Bushland Group, Ben Simon made an exciting find. Glycine latrobeana, commonly known as Clover Glycine is a National (EPBC listed) and State vulnerable species.
SA Water, in concert with Nature Foundation SA, recently installed temporary irrigation infrastructure to deliver donated environmental water to seedlings on Clarks Floodplain.
The Northern and Yorke Natural Resources Management (NRM) Board invites the community to provide feedback on its draft 2013 - 2016 Business Plan.
www.nynrm.sa.gov.au
Natural Resources, SA Murray-Darling Basin (NR SA MDB) have recently received $115,000 which will be put towards the continuation of their Climate Change Vulnerability Project.
A new 4WD day tour and an alternative morning walk with breakfast included have been added to the list of activities which Rawnsley Park offers its guests.
www.rawnsleypark.com.au
River Murray Weekly Flow Report
AUSTRALIA
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued severe thunderstorm warnings that cover much of Queensland.
www.abc.net.au/news
Conservationists are predicting the NSW state government will be punished by voters at the 2015 election if it does not back down on plans to allow hunting in national parks.
A pair of South American macaws stolen from a wildlife park in Sydney's west may have been targeted as Christmas presents or for the illegal exotic bird trade, keepers say.
Farmers are being warned of surging rabbit numbers. The Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre says good seasons and growing resistance to biological controls have boosted rabbit populations.
New figures out this week show Australia's farmers and miners lifted primary exports more than nine per cent in the 2011-2012 financial year, to nearly $200 billion.
Sooner or later Australians may have to decide which wildlife they allow to go extinct. Making choices between icons like the koala, bilby, Tasmanian Devil and hairy-nosed wombat might seem horrible, says ecologist Dr Michael McCarthy of CEED and The University of Melbourne – but at present levels of national conservation funding, it is more or less inevitable.
ceed.edu.au
One of the most invasive weeds ever imported into Australia promised to deliver one of our first industries, a food source in drought, and a patch of colour in the garden.
www.abc.net.au/rural
Market forces is a new project starting in 2013. It will enable the community to shift investment out of environmentally harmful projects, and into those that protect and enhance the environment.
For more than a year, hunters have scoured windy hills and tussock flats through sub-Antarctic cold and still there is no sign. The wildlife paradise Macquarie Island looks to have been saved from the rabbit.
Sea Shepherd Challenges Denmark at the European Commission.
California sold all of the carbon permits in its first auction in part due to an administrative error by Edison International that caused the company to bid for twice as many allowances as were for sale.
Rescuers say there is little chance of saving a large finback whale that has beached itself in New York City.
An amazing 3.8 billion-pixel image taken from above Mount Everest Base Camp has been stitched together by filmmaker and mountain climber David Breashears, allowing internet users to zoom in and view the mountain in stunning detail.
www.theage.com.au
A study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light on the long-term effects of drought on the Amazon rainforest.
A damning report by safety experts has revealed that staff at Sellafield, Britain's most important nuclear site, did "not have the level of capability required to respond to nuclear emergencies effectively.
A nine-year study led by researcher Linda Deegan points to the damage that human-caused nutrients inflict on salt marshes along the U.S. East Coast.
Another climate change study is projecting declines in runoff in many parts of the U.S. West, a scenario that would put more pressure on the region’s water supplies.
Fifty years after publication of "Silent Spring," the use of pesticides remains contentious, and it is ever more evident the biologist understood how serious the threats were.
When an acrid blanket of gray smog settled over India’s capital last month, environmentalists warned of health hazards, India’s Supreme Court promised action and state officials struggled to understand why the air had suddenly gone so bad.
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