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Public consultation: draft assessment bilateral agreement between the Commonwealth and the Northern Territory
'Like a demon in a medieval book': is this how the marsupial lion killed prey?
We knew this powerful carnivorous mammal ate kangaroos, but I now think we can speculate on how it caught them too
I've been thinking – as one does – about marsupial lions. Of all the species that became extinct after people first arrived in Australia, between 40 and 50,000 years ago, this is the one that intrigues me most.
Even more, that is, than the spiny anteater the size of a pig; a relative of the wombat the size of a rhinoceros; a marsupial tapir as big as a horse; a ten-foot kangaroo; a horned tortoise eight feet long and a monitor lizard bigger than the Nile crocodile. The lost Australian megafauna looks like a science fiction film directed by an acid casualty.
Continue reading...Fisherman must pay £50,000 after being caught fishing illegally off Wales
A fisherman has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £50,000 after he was caught dredging for scallops in a conservation area protected because it is a precious habitat for marine animals including dolphins.
Mark Powell, the skipper of The Golden Fleece II, was spotted by a Royal Navy patrol dredging for scallops in a special area of conservation off the coast of Wales.
Continue reading...Nominations closed for the 2014/2015 assessment period
Public consultation on the Minamata Convention on Mercury has now commenced
Jane Goodall blames 'chaotic note taking' for plagiarism controversy
Leading primatologist Jane Goodall has blamed a "hectic work schedule" and her "chaotic method of note taking" for a plagarism controversy surrounding her reissued book.
Speaking ahead of the publication of a revised edition of Seeds of Hope, first published in August 2013, Goodall, said she had learned lessons following reports in the Washington Post last year that at least 12 sections of the book were lifted from other websites including Wikipedia.
Continue reading...'We expect catastrophe' – Manila, the megacity on the climate frontline
Joshua Alvarez and his family fear for their lives when the monsoon rains come. Last August their two-bedroom flat in Manila was flooded when severe tropical storm Trami dumped 15 inches of rain (380mm) in a few hours and the local reservoir overflowed. They fled to a flyover with thousands of others as five large areas of the capital were inundated with muddy waters up to three metres deep and a state of calamity was declared in three Philippine provinces.
In 2012, typhoon Haikui battered the megacity of 12 million people for eight days, but when tropical storm Ondoy hit Manila in 2009 and a month's worth of rain fell in a few hours, the city came close to catastrophe. Nearly 80% was flooded, 246 people died and hundreds of thousands had to be evacuated.
Continue reading...Green Army Request for Tender Now Open
Australia’s fifth national report to the Convention on Biological Diversity
James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
Scientist behind the Gaia hypothesis says environment movement does not pay enough attention to facts and he was too certain in the past about rising temperatures
Environmentalism has "become a religion" and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock.
The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that "it’s just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer” and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.
Continue reading...Management Program for the Saltwater Crocodile in the Northern Territory
Public consultation: draft assessment bilateral agreement between the Commonwealth and the Australian Capital Territory
New Carbon Farming Initiative methodology proposal
Threatened Species Commissioner - Draft Terms of Reference announced
Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Fin Fish Fishery
Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Fin Fish Fishery
Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Fin Fish Fishery
Groundwater Purchase Tender in the Central Condamine Alluvium – Round 2 now open
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