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WEDNESDAY, 22ND MAY 2013

 SOUTH AUSTRALIA

 Trees For Life has been named as the only South Australian finalist in this year’s United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) World Environment Day Awards.

In the face of estimations that up to 70 per cent of southern hairy-nosed wombats in the Murraylands have been lost to disease and starvation, the Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation says the condition is not widespread. Last week Minister Ian Hunter answered questions asked of him by Greens MLC Tammy Franks in October 2011 regarding the local wombat population.

Despite the recent recuperation of the Coorong after years of drought, the region has been labelled a critically endangered eco-system in a scientific report.

Santos says it will begin assessing environmental damage from an oil leak in Queensland's far south-west.

Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy Tom Koutsantonis has welcomed the release of draft Commonwealth legislation that will enable the development of an estimated $35 billion of mineral resources in the Woomera Prohibited Area.

Estimated populations of South Australia's giant cuttlefish have fallen from 180,000 to just 20,000, with the University of Adelaide undertaking research to find what is causing the drastic fall.

The National Irrigators Council is concerned that having invested millions of dollars in recovering water for the Murray-Darling environment, the Federal Government isn't investing enough in the body responsible for making it happen.

Flows into the River Murray system last month were half the long-term monthly average.

Water banking -- storing floodwater in depleted underground aquifers for later use -- has upsides for farmers and the environment, is technically feasible and could be the next step in water management in the Murray Darling Basin.

New technology has been developed by South Australian scientists in China to turn pig waste into biogas and biochar.

Inonge Mubanga Samboko hopes the trip of a lifetime to South Australia to study agriculture will help lead to a better life for the people of her village in Zambia.

Kingston microbats are currently in a feeding frenzy as they fatten up on insects to see them through the coming winter.

During Feral Cat month we have highlighted the impacts that feral cats have on our native wildlife, but what about responsible cat ownership? Should domestic cats be treated in the same way as domestic dogs, with restrictions on their movements and laws to ensure they are registered or desexed?

AUSTRALIA

A biology professor says changes to Queensland's land clearing laws are a backward step.

Cattle have not only been grazing in national parks for years, but it's been a handy revenue raiser for government, according to a cattleman and former Cape York mayor.

A decade-old goal to increase the amount of native vegetation across Victoria will be dropped as part of sweeping changes to the state's land clearing laws.

Environmentalists are worried the arrival of cane toads in the Kimberley region of WA could wipe out local native species.

Environmentalists have launched Supreme Court action suing the state government over a failure to draw up plans for the survival of threatened species.

An organisation which removes abandoned fishing nets from oceans will shut down at the end of June because of a lack of funding.

THE Australian Greens have announced policy to empower landholders to say no to coal seam gas (CSG) on their land.

A new invention that looks like a big blue shipping container could solve two of Australia's biggest environmental problems in one hit.

The “recycling wars” between Coca-Cola and Greenpeace have spilt into cyberspace, with the beverage giant buying the top advertising slot for searches of the environmental group's name.

A new report says the planet may be warming slower in the short-term than had been previously projected.

At first glance, grader driver Darryl Hill may not be an obvious advocate for soil conservation. But the Katherine-based instructor travels all over the country teaching pastoralists how to design and construct roads to minimise erosion.

Authorities say it is unclear why the population of an endangered marsupial appears to have doubled in central Victoria this year.

A New South Wales zoo is celebrating the birth of a white rhino calf.


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