Feed aggregator
Proposal to grant an export permit for native bird species under exceptional circumstances
Extension to assessment timeframes for three ecological community assessments
Release of the Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: June 2014
Release of the Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: June 2014
Public consultation - Landfill Facility Operators
Public consultation - Landfill Facility Operators
On line survey now open for the Commonwealth Marine Reserves Review
Updated threatened ecological community listings and new Conservation Advices
Packaging Impacts Decision RIS
Brown bears, wolves and lynx numbers rising in Europe
Land-sharing model of conservation is helping large predators thrive in the wild – and even the British countryside could support big carnivores, study finds
The forests – and suburbs – of Europe are echoing with the growls, howls and silent padding of large predators according to a new study which shows that brown bears, wolves and lynx are thriving on a crowded continent.
Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
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20 Million Trees successful projects
20 Million Trees Service Provider Request for Tender
Fishing quotas defy scientists’ advice
Britain’s fishermen will be allowed to increase their catch of cod and other key fish species next year after late-night wrangling between EU ministers in Brussels resulted in a new set of fishing quotas that flout scientific advice.
The quota for cod catches for 2015 will increase by 5% on last year, though scientific advice suggested that it should be cut by 20%.
Continue reading...Belo Monte, Brazil: The tribes living in the shadow of a megadam
Next year the Belo Monte dam will flood vast swathes of Amazon rainforest. Indian tribes living on the river have lost their fight to halt the project – now they await the floods that threaten their entire way of life
By the Great Bend of the Xingu river in the depths of Amazonia, the Juruna tribe is being drowned by what seems at first sight to be a flood of TV game-show prizes.
There’s a shiny new motorboat moored by the old canoe, the latest four-wheel drive parked beside a chicken coop, satellite dishes outside every home and wide-screen plasma TVs inside.
Continue reading...Find Environmental Data (FED) information tool launched
Chairs’ Update December 2014 | Commonwealth Marine Reserves Review
World set for climate disaster, say activists, as Lima talks falter
Proposals too weak to keep global warming to the agreed limit of two degrees above pre-industrial levels
Frustrated climate campaigners have claimed that the world was on course for an unsustainable four-degree rise in temperatures, as two weeks of negotiations for a climate change agreement headed for an unsatisfying conclusion.
The proposals, still under discussion on Saturday, a day after the talks were scheduled to end, were too weak to keep global warming to the agreed limit of two degrees above preindustrial levels, setting the world on course to a climate disaster, according to developing countries at the summit.
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