Conservationists Want Crocodiles Protected - Manila Bulletin

Conservationists Want Crocodiles Protected
Manila Bulletin
This network works closely with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Considered as critically threatened are the Chinese crocodiles, followed by Philippine freshwater, Siamese, Cuban, ...

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San vs wild: what the San people can teach us about living with climate change - The Ecologist

San vs wild: what the San people can teach us about living with climate change
The Ecologist
Their story has a similar trajectory to that of Australia's aborigines, with incoming Bantu tribes then European colonists driving them out of fertile farmland and into the burning wastes of the Kalahari Desert where most now live.

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Constance defends corporatisation of Forests NSW - Eden Magnet

Constance defends corporatisation of Forests NSW
Eden Magnet
Will jobs, animals and plants be threatened as Forests NSW tightens its belt in a restructure was a question asked by the Australian Workers Union (AWU) at a Bombala meeting this week. The NSW Government is saying 'no' but is facing criticism from the ...

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Koalas now listed as 'vulnerable' - Northern Star

Koalas now listed as 'vulnerable'
Northern Star
CONSERVATIONISTS hope a decision to list koalas as threatened will increase legal protection for the iconic marsupial. Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has announced koalas in NSW, Queensland and the ACT will now be considered 'vulnerable' under ...

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Five months up a tree and counting - ABC Local


ABC Local
Five months up a tree and counting
ABC Local
As part of my volunteer work monitoring flora and fauna of threatened forests with Still Wild Still Threatened, I had encountered this forest known to Forestry Tasmania as 'coupe tn044b'. I had watched footage of Tasmanian devils and spot tail quolls ...

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Rare find thrills Wombat Forestcare group - Hepburn Advocate

Rare find thrills Wombat Forestcare group
Hepburn Advocate
Also, a pair of spotted quail-thrushes (cinclosoma punctatum), which are listed as “near threatened”, were recorded by the same site cameras. The project has been made possible through the Hepburn Wind Community Fund. The Wombat Forestcare group was ...

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Vector Resources Limited (ASX:VEC) Mining Lease Granted at Gwendolyn - Yahoo!7 News

Vector Resources Limited (ASX:VEC) Mining Lease Granted at Gwendolyn
Yahoo!7 News
Sydney, Australia, May 21, 2012 - (ABN Newswire) - Vector Resources Limited (ASX:VEC.AX - News) is pleased to announce that it has achieved major administrative milestones in preparation of the Gwendolyn East tenement for near term mining potential.

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Abbott should ponder parliamentary reform - The Australian

Abbott should ponder parliamentary reform
The Australian
Yet now and then, one of these institutional mega fauna does genuinely clutch at its heart with a pained expression. Just now, parliament, which has been consigned to the knackers more often than Ricky Ponting, is looking dead sick.

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Dairy plans may threaten Tasmanian devil - Stuff.co.nz

Dairy plans may threaten Tasmanian devil
Stuff.co.nz
"To destroy the habitat after going to great effort to protect the devils from infection from the deadly facial tumour disease would be a perverse and outrageous outcome – not to mention a waste of Australian taxpayers' money," Mr McGlone said ...

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Australia's South West forests dying - death of trees world-wide - Sydney Indymedia

Australia's South West forests dying - death of trees world-wide
Sydney Indymedia
By Gerry Georgatos Disease and drought are threatening iconic South West forests, including Warrup, Yabberup, Arcadia, Kingston-Perup - in fact the whole region. Murdoch University researchers and international scientists are warning that thousands of ...

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