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Friday, 1st March 2013


SOUTH AUSTRALIA


Before he was selling out arenas across Australia, one Hilltop Hoods member fondly remembers family time spent at Warrawong Sanctuary with native flora and fauna.

Today Senators Xenophon and Madigan put forward a bill to restrict building wind farms on the basis of false claims of health impacts - claims that have been linked directly to the fossil fuel industry.

Poison baits would be laid near homes in the suburban foothills in a plan aimed at curbing burgeoning urban foxes since the end of the drought.

Cuttlefish Country are back from a successful underwater filming jaunt to Spencer Gulf, where we recorded the delightful Southern Pygmy Squid in the waters of False Bay (Whyalla) and Lipson Cove (north of Tumby Bay).

Irrigators in the southern connected system of the Murrary Darling Basin could set a record for extracting the highest volume of water in an irrigation season.

The head of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority wants an urgent, independent review of the way the Basin is operated and how that's paid for.

River Murray Weekly Flow Report

A meeting in western Queensland has called for a special Act of Parliament to manage rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin.

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is urging the South Australian Government to do its part to protect Lake Eyre, ahead of potential changes to the Wild Rivers protection in western Queensland.

A new national wild dog committee is hoping its formation will attract more funding to tackle the pest. Wild dogs cost livestock producers millions of dollars and graziers say the problem's worsening.

Red bugs have been swarming across parts of South Australia, with reports from areas including the Barossa and Clare Valleys, Riverland, Eyre Peninsula and Spencer Gulf cities.

Solar panels will be installed on six Salisbury community centres to help slash rising power bills.

A plan to help flood-proof 7000 homes along Brown Hill and Keswick creeks has been given the green light, 10 years after it was first proposed.

About a hundred people met in Port Broughton last night to discuss proposals mooted by PIRSA to implement spatial snapper fishing closures.

Much needed rain has fallen across parts of the state's cropping districts.

A page to share information regarding which products available in Australia are palm-oil free, and conversely which products still contain palm oil.

There will soon be fewer places for the hooded plover to hide on the Yorke Peninsula with regular monitoring planned at Moonta Bay. Bird Life Australia will conduct a workshop at Port Hughes to train more volunteers from the surrounding area to be able to cover more of the peninsula’s coastline. 

The Commonwealth Biodiversity Fund is investing $946m over six years to help land managers store carbon, enhance biodiversity and build greater environmental resilience across the Australian landscape.

The Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources is working towards proclaiming 580 hectares of Crown land as parks under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.

Together, the best and brightest scientists and students challenge known concepts to forge new paths in science. They are solving key problems in the world by using the expertise of researchers in SA Museum Science Centre, who are training future leaders in fields such as Biology, Mineralogy and Palaeontology.

Have you ever wondered what happens to insects in a bushfire?

Want to check out an entertaining Fringe show and support climate action at the same time? This is the event for you!



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