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Youth-led conservation groups are bringing young Australians back into nature
Many young Australians care deeply about the climate and environment. In fact, our survey found that young people are the group most likely to be influenced by environmental issues when voting. Yet when it comes to on-ground conservation, participation among young people lags behind older age groups.
Australia needs more young people involved in caring for the environment - after all, they will bear the impacts of nature losses and climate challenges in the future - but issues like eco-anxiety and growing disconnection from nature are holding many back from taking action.
Burgoyne's buffel weed decision condemned
The Arid Lands Environment Centre condemns Minister Joshua Burgoyne's catastrophic buffel grass decision that caves to industry lobbying and puts his own community at risk, by continuing to permit the sale, trade and planting of buffel grass across the Northern Territory’s pastoral leases.
Buffel grass does not recognise fence lines and artificial boundaries. It is a highly invasive weed that devastates arid environments and communities across Australia and the world.
The life and colour of the arid lands is suffocating in buffel grass before it all goes up in flames.
Joint statement: Australia’s national environment laws
We are Australians that dearly love the land, water, wildlife, and culture of our great country. We are committed to communities having a fair go, to openness in decision-making and to having our voices heard on decisions that affect us. We are committed to the wellbeing of this generation and future generations – and to protecting our people and our landscapes from the devastating impacts and costs of climate disasters.
We are dismayed that the Albanese Government has put forward national environment law reform that experts tell us will take us backwards – backwards on protecting environments, backwards on integrity, and backwards on community rights and interests.
WA environment minister green-lights $300 million Cockatoo Island aviation & marine hub
The WA environment minister has approved plans for a major aviation and marine base on a Kimberley island.
The Cockatoo Multi-User Supply Base will be built on Cockatoo Island, north of Derby, by the privately owned Crestlink.
Environment movement voices meet in Top End
Leading voices from First Nations, environment and social justice movements will meet this week to discuss how Australia’s Great North, one of the world’s last “great wilderness strongholds”, is under threat.
ECNT launches legal action against government's Mataranka water plan
An environment group is taking legal action against the NT government's Mataranka water plan, which covers a massive aquifer beneath the region's world-famous hot springs.
The plan allows for up to 62,000 ML/year to be extracted from the Tindal Limestone Aquifer, roughly double the previous amount allowed.
