News and Media
Trawler fishing is devastating slow growing marine life and damaging Australia’s oceans, a new report has found. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8280673/net-fishing-damaging-marine-life-report
Hundreds of people have written passionate pleas urging the federal government to reconsider its proposed network of marine reserves off the South-West, imploring what they say is a lack of protection for vulnerable marine life. http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/pleas-to-protect-wa-marine-life-ramps-up-20110802-1i9rh.html
A petition is currently circulating organised by Save our Fish Stocks, a group of recreational fishers opposed to gill nets. http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/08/01/3282729.htm?site=southwestwa
Cetacean conservation group Sea Shepherd has weighed into the debate about marine sanctuaries in the South West and across Australia, “taking to the cyber waves” in a campaign targeting Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/regional/southwest/a/-/news/9950615/sea-shepherd-targets-sw-whale-zone/
The State Government says it hopes common sense will prevail over a proposal that threatens to ban fishing in a large part of ocean off the south west coast. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-22/marine-park-exemptions/2806558
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Gillard Government risks its election promise to establish a network of marine parks that properly protects marine life unless it increases the number and size of sanctuary areas in its Draft Plan for the south west waters of Australia, a new analysis has found. http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/25557-promise-to-protect-marine-life-at-risk-as-oil-drilling-threatens-south-west-oceans.html
FOUR past Australians of the Year are petitioning the federal government to offer better protection of the fragile waters off the southwest coast of WA. Ian Kiernan, Tim Flannery, Dick Smith and Fiona Wood have written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, urging her to widen the area of protection. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/high-profile-petition-to-save-ocean/story-e6frg6nf-1226095277508
West Australian doctor Fiona Wood is among four Australians of the Year to sign an impassioned letter to the Prime Minster, asking her to seriously consider the future of the country’s marine sanctuaries before passing proposed legislation. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/prominent-aussies-plea-with-pm-over-marine-sanctuaries-20110714-1hfnt.html#ixzz1S8h6rzfT
FOUR past Australians of the Year are petitioning the federal government to offer better protection of the fragile waters off the southwest coast of WA. http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/eminent-aussies-bat-for-protection-for-wa-south-west-coast/story-e6frg13u-1226095059913
Four former Australians of the Year are calling for increased protection for waters off Western Australia’s south-west coast. Professor Tim Flannery, businessman Dick Smith, Perth doctor Fiona Wood and environmentalist, Ian Kiernan, have written to the Prime Minister, urging the government to extend its marine parks plan. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-15/marine-park-expansion/2795908
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