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Sunday, 20th January 2013


SOUTH AUSTRALIA


Bike rally at the Tour Down Under protest highlighted opposition to SANTOS putting our health and underground water resources at risk from coal seam gas.

What to do with an injured native animal; from the Native Animal Network of SA.
www.nansa.org.au/

Due to its low spawning biomass and, until recently, high levels of fishing mortality the Southern Bluefin Tuna are classified as conservation dependent under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and Critically Endangered by the IUCN.

"I have come to the conclusion that all the world's biggest problems can be solved by a few blokes sitting around having a cold beer. This revelation became apparent when a couple of anonymous thinkers-in-residence at Dublin explained to me their plan to make state and federal governments aware of the importance of agriculture to the country and to make the general populace appreciate the value of food producers."

Sign the petition to save the Giant Australian Cuttlefish and Upper Spencer Gulf.
cuttlefishcountry.com

The Natural History Society of S.A. need a couple extra sets of hands on Tuesday (sorry for the short notice) to clip the new fencing on the Project. If you can come, please send an email to NHSSA.Inc@gmail.com.


AUSTRALIA


Bushfires burn across southern Australia.
www.abc.net.au

Australia is calling on the Queensland Government to urgently release toxicology results following mass turtle deaths at Upstart Bay, near Townsville, last year.
www.wwf.org.au

An eagle-eyed local is alleging that coal seam gas mining company Metgasco has made false representations to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) regarding its drilling operations at Glenugie.

Established Hunter coal seam gas exploration areas, such as the Gloucester Basin and Broke, are described as "experiments" because the environmental effects of the controversial fracking process are so little understood.

Fast action by DAFF biosecurity officers has led to the containment of a potentially serious quarantine threat – the coffee berry borer – in Queensland.

Geoff Hudson, an independent computer programmer and inventor from Melbourne, refers to an earlier Ockham's Razortalk by Graham Palmer about coal fired power stations and makes some alternative suggestions about how power can be obtained in a more environmentally friendly way.

Scientists and Indigenous ranger groups are working together to track where so-called ghost nets are travelling in Australian waters.
www.abc.net.au

A rare marsupial that had disappeared from Australia's mainland is thriving near Canberra, with reports the population is fat and happy.
www.abc.net.au

Steve Allen and Graham Ross lead a bushwalk along the Illawarra Escarpment.


INTERNATIONAL


China's authorities are set to unveil unprecedented new rules governing how Beijing reacts to hazardous air pollution.

The Association of Indonesian Forest Businessmen (APHI) has said that Indonesia may see decreasing exports of timber and its by products to the European Union (EU) if the country continues to delay the signing of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT-VPA).

Several credible scenarios suggest that solar could provide about 30 percent of global total electricity in 2050, up from the 0.1 percent it provides now.

The first confirmed sample of 100,000 year old water from the subsurface Lake Vostok in Antarctica has been retrieved.

Hong Kong's massive stockpile of seized ivory could help in the hunt for poachers who are killing tens of thousands of elephants across Africa, a leading US biologist says.

Ulaanbaatar is importing foreign experts to combat falling water levels in Mongolia's third longest river. Qualifications include sharp incisors, flat tails and webbed toes.
www.riverfoundation.org.au

I'm a baby Striped Dolphin named Marcos. I was discovered close to shore near Roquetas de Mar, Spain & was clearly not in good health. Please help me find my mom.

This rare film stars Orson Welles and features a dramatic recreation of a meeting between Nikola Tesla, Industrialist J.P. Morgan and Thomas Edison, that would decide the fate and future of today’s Electric Power Industry in America and the world. But what happened to Tesla?

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