Environment and Other News

One of our most endangered kangaroo species, the Banded Hare-wallaby, has made a historic return to mainland Australia, more than 100 years after the last wild colony disappeared as a result of foxes and cats Donate Now Historic return to mainland Australia for one of our rarest kangaroo species One of our most endangered kangaroo species, the Banded Hare-wallaby, has made a historic return to mainland Australia, more than 100 years after the last wild colony disappeared as a result of foxes and cats. 60 Banded Hare-wallabies - 27 males and 33 females - have been successfully translocated to AWC's Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, where they have been released into a 7,800 hectare feral predator-free area. The animals were airlifted from Bernier and Dorre Islands in Shark Ba...

Friend -- Outdated regulations are putting freshwater ecosystems at risk - tell Josh Frydenberg to update this list today ! In September 2016 Friends of the Earth produced the report:   Pesticides in Australian Waterways Overview . The results were shocking with 89% of the almost 200 pesticides detected having no ecological guidelines under the current system. Many of the unregulated pesticides detected are known to be harmful to animals like the long necked turtle, affect their food supply and cause havoc and destruction for fragile ecosystems in Australian waterways. Let Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg know it is time to update the ANZECC guidelines to protect our waterways . Australia’s ecological guidelines for waterways, the ANZECC Guidelines, have not been updated since the year 2000. Work is very slowly progressing to update the 2000 Guidelines. Friends of the Earth have determined that 95% of Agvet chemicals registered for use...