South Beach Wetlandskeeper shares success with The Moyne Gazette
South Beach Wetlandskeeper and Chairman of the South Beach Wetlands & Landcare Group, Don Stewart, caught up with The Moyne Gazette in early December and shared with them their recent success in protecting the Powling Street Wetlands in Port Fairy, Victoria from inappropriate development.
To read the article published on Thursday 4 December 2008, click here. [...]
Upper Snowy Riverkeeper and the Moonbah River
Moonbah Meanderings and the Inequity of its Theft
(featured in local papers)
The science of the Moonbah River (Mowamba) has been adequately explained in plain English and scientific terminology by numerous renowned scientists. All of these esteemed people agree that the Moonbah is the only natural, upper montane river left that can provide the essential connectivity so [...]
Coorong Lakes and Murray Waterkeeper featured on Stateline
Transcript
3 Weirs, Not 1 ?
Broadcast: 22/08/2008
Reporter: Leah MacLennan
IAN HENSCHKE: The water woes and apparent inequities continue. It was revealed this week Queensland extracted a record amount of water from the Murray Darling system last year.
Meanwhile the State Government’s plan for a weir at Wellington looks increasingly likely despite continued opposition from the communities downstream.
But the [...]
Yarra Riverkeeper in Royal Auto
The latest edition of the RACV magazine, Royal Auto features a two page article on the Yarra Riverkeeper.
View a copy of the article here:
yarra-riverkeeper-royal-auto
Coorong Lakes and Murray Waterkeeper in Canberra Times
Storm Boy landscape ‘in crisis’
BY ROSSLYN BEEBY
SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
28/06/2008 12:00:00 AM
The Rudd Government faces global censure at an international wetlands conference in South Korea over its failure to take emergency action to save the dying Coorong wetlands, conservationists say.
The support of high-profile global ”green” celebrities is also being sought to demand the Government move [...]
Coorong Lakes and Murray Waterkeeper featured on Lateline
Murray River on the brink of collapse - Lateline Report
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 18/06/2008
Reporter: Rachel Carbonell
For the Video go to:
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2278901.htm
Scientists are warning the Murray Basin is on the brink of ecological collapse, saying there is just six months left to save it. They sounded the alarm, in a report to the Federal Government a month ago.
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LEIGH [...]
Coorong Lakes and Murray Waterkeeper speaks in a Lateline report
Heavy metals threaten Murray River - Lateline Special Report
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 24/04/2008
Reporter: Rachel Carbonell
For the Video go to:
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2227116.htm
The CSIRO has discovered toxic heavy metals in the ground of dried up wetlands and waterways in the Murray in South Australia. The metals have the potential to make it into Adelaide’s drinking water supplies and the [...]
The Snowy River of Discontent!
An article for The Snowy Echo, dated 27th july 2007, by Upper Snowy Riverkeeper, Angel John Gallard.
The Snowy River of Discontent!
Something’s fishy with Snowy bass stocks
A river of legend will become a river of sadness unless changes are made in a hurry, say Martin Flanagan in The Age.
Download article PD: Something’s fishy with Snowy bass stocks
If a river has no water, is it still a river?
The Yarra needs a flow if it is to be our healthy Yarra, says Yarra Riverkeeper.
