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Queensland is looking to ban all single-use plastic straws, plates and cutlery by mid-2021
16 July 2020, pedestrian.tv
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Queensland moves to ban single-use plastic straws and plates in bid to save marine life
15 July 2020, Guardian Australia
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The endangered school shark is being sold as food in Australia
14 July 2020, A Green Living
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Australians unknowingly eat a critically endangered fish sold in takeaway stores
14 July 2020, Whatsnew2day
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The threatened fish species going through a rough time
15 July 2020, 2SER
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Australians are unknowingly eating a critically endangered fish
14 July 2020, Daily Mail Online
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Critically endangered shark being sold at fish and chip shops
14 July 2020, 3AW
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13 July 2020, Guardian Australia
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School shark listed as critically endangered by International Union for the Conservation of Nature
13 July 2020, Jimboomba Times
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Australia’s orange roughy fishery recommended for MSC certification
9 July 2020, SeafoodSource.com
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Save endangered marine animals in Australia
9 July 2020, onegreenplanet.org
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5 July 2020, ABC online
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Calls to block drilling near WA’s Ningaloo
1 July 2020, 7News
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Whitsundays’ history with a touch of green
26 June 2020, Whitsunday Times
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25 June 2020, Daily Mail Online
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Burleigh Heads beach protest over ‘killer’ shark nets
25 June 2020, Gold Coast Bulletin
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Fishers praised for sustainability
23 June 2020, Sentinel Times
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Endangered Australian fish being sold in shops and restaurants
23 June 2020, Guardian Australia
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Bowen photographer gathers following with underwater wonders
22 June 2020, Whitsunday Times
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Government’s COVID-19 commission accused of shutting out green groups
17 June 2020, 9News
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Environment groups say they’ve been shut out of COVID consultation
17 June 2020, Sydney Morning Herald
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WA’s World Heritage listed Ningaloo Reef on oil, gas exploration map
16 June 2020, ABC online
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‘We will fight’: Oil and gas move off Ningaloo shocks protection groups
15 June 2020, WA Today
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As fear lifts, we plan bucket-list trips – but Ningaloo faces its own existential threat
15 June 2020, WA Today
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Diveplanit shares ways to explore Australia’s amazing underwater world
12 June 2020, Travel Monitor
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Unesco urged to declare Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’
11 June 2020, Guardian Australia
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10 June 2020, Cairns Post
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Listen up, here’s how to celebrate World Oceans Day from home
8 June 2020, Urban: List
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8 June 2020, 2SER
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Gold Coast whale rescuer Django donates thousands of dollars to marine conservation
5 June 2020, 7News
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It’s World Environment Day so take a gander at these orgs doing 10/10 work in the bush
5 June 2020, Pedestrian.tv
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Top ten ways you can help boost Australia’s biodiversity
5 June 2020, RMIT University
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Marine Conservationists would welcome support for hard hit reef tourism sector
25 May 2020, My Sunshine Coast
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Ipswich filmmakers take shark net problem to world
16 May 2020, Fraser Coast Chronicle
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This is how you can eat more sustainable seafood
13 May 2020, SBS
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Envoy: Cull doco claims Queensland’s shark cull program is outdated and costs lives
6 May 2020, Courier Mail
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6 May 2020, ABC News
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Missing: South African great white sharks. The reason: Australian appetites
4 May 2020, Forbes
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False Bay’s great white sharks have vanished, and the answer may be in our fish and chips
2 May 2020, ABC Radio National
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Great Barrier Reef hit with another mass bleaching event. Our governments must do more
27 April 2020, Herald Sun
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Imogen Zethoven: The coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef continues
22 April 2020, Pearls and Irritations
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5 independent jewellery brands with noteworthy sustainable agendas
21 April 2020, Vogue UK
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Fight to save Great Barrier Reef after third bleaching event
21 April 2020, news.com.au
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Scientists get $300 million toward saving the Reef
16 April 2020, msn.com
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Heat tolerant coral and cloud manipulation: $300 million earmarked for new Reef research
16 April 2020, 9 News
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Great Barrier Reef bleached from top to bottom
10 April 2020, Courier Mail
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9 April 2020, Kiddipedia
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Great Barrier Reef on ‘knife edge’ after widespread bleaching event
8 April 2020, Asia-Pacific Boating
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Covid-19 turmoil could save our Great Barrier Reef! (If the gov clamps down on mining)
8 April 2020, Accom News
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Groups propose $4 billion stimulus to create 24,000 land improvement jobs
8 April 2020, Beef Central
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Great Barrier Reef now bleached from north to south
7 April 2020, Inter News Cast
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Great Barrier Reef’s third mass bleaching in five years ‘most widespread yet’
7 April 2020, 9 News
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We must unite to face coming challenges
6 April 2020, The Canberra Times
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Japan scales back its whaling program
3 April 2020, The Maritime Executive
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Japanese whaling is down but not out
3 April 2020, Lowy Institute for International Policy
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Fishers join forces to push for job protection
2 April 2020, Fraser Coast Chronicle
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Great Barrier Reef suffers mass coral bleaching event
27 March 2020, Line Today
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Great Barrier Reef suffers third mass bleaching
27 March 2020, The Free Press Journal
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Great Barrier Reef suffers mass coral bleaching event
27 March 2020, RTL Today
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Great Barrier Reef’s latest bleaching confirmed by marine park authority
26 March 2020, Guardian Australia
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7 reasons to dive in Australia in 2020
23 March 2020, Travel Monitor
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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park on high alert ahead of predicted bleaching
16 March 2020, 7News Cairns
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This is how you can eat more sustainable seafood
10 March 2020, SBS Food
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After the bushfires comes the bleaching
10 March 2020, Pearls and Irritations
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Supreme Court to consider whether foreigners are immune to NT law once overseas
10 March 2020, news.com.au
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Almost 90 percent of dolphin population killed off by overfishing
28 February 2020, 10 Daily
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Great Barrier Reef could be hit with coral bleaching ‘disaster’ in weeks as temperatures rise
20 February 2020, ABC Far North
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Coral reefs could be completely lost to the climate crisis by 2100, new study finds
20 February 2020, EcoWatch
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Great Barrier Reef on brink of third major coral bleaching in five years, scientists warn
20 February 2020, Guardian Australia
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By 2100, coral reefs might completely disappear
20 February 2020, World Economic Forum
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6 February 2020, Surf Simply Magazine
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Shark drumlines to return to Queensland water
4 February 2020, WA Today
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When reef ecosystems fail to recover
3 February 2020, China Daily
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Australia’s marine animals will be bushfires’ unseen victims
2 February 2020, Scientific American
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DDT and other banned chemicals pose threat to vulnerable dolphins on Great Barrier Reef
30 January 2020, Guardian Australia
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Cruising whale sharks could damage bid to industrialise Exmouth Gulf
21 January 2020, WA Today
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Fish stocks now threatened by bushfire run-off
20 January 2020, The Age
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Tropical with a dash of elegance: award winning chef Sam Moore’s new kitchen at Orpheus Island
10 January 2020, Australian Good Food Guide Blog
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What we’ll be eating and drinking in 2020
9 January 2020, Royal Automobile Club of Victoria
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Sustainable seafood: how to navigate the fish market this Christmas
24 December 2019, Guardian Australia
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New threat for grey nurse sharks, as Batemans Bay sanctuary open to fishing
16 December 2019, Canberra Times
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Science with Jonathan Webb: The silent extinction in our oceans
13 December 2019, ABC Radio National
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Calls to ban scalloped hammerhead shark fishing
12 December 2019, Mix 104.9
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11 December 2019, ABC News
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3 December 2019, RTRFM
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Climate change has diminished the Great Barrier Reef’s ‘outstanding values’, report shows
3 December 2019, SBS
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Great Barrier Reef world heritage values damaged by climate change, government admits
2 December 2019, Guardian Australia
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Limmen Bight photographic art depicts remote NT marine park’s scars and beauty
1 December 2019, ABC online
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Call for Australia to show Unesco it’s ‘walking the walk’ on Great Barrier Reef
29 November 2019, Guardian Australia
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How to buy and cook the best seafood for Christmas
27 November 2019, Courier Mail
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KISS is playing a concert for our great white sharks
18 November 2019, Australian Geographic
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Ministers assess protection of ‘very poor’ Great Barrier Reef ahead of UN scrutiny
18 November 2019, Brisbane Times
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Darwin oil spill court case continues
15 November 2019, ABC News
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Plastic straws would be banned under new Queensland single-use plastics plan
07 November 2019, ABC News
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Tourism industry breaks silence over shark control programs
04 November 2019, 7News Cairns
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04 November 2019, 10 News First Queensland
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09 September 2019, The Project, Network Ten
Great Barrier Reef Outlook is “very poor”
31 August 2019, BBC News
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in “very poor” condition: agency
31 August 2019, Reuters
31 August 2019, The Australian
Great Barrier Reef long-term outlook ‘very poor’, Federal Government reef report finds
31 August 2019, ABC News
Only 10% of sugarcane growers in reef catchment properly managing runoff
30 August 2019, Guardian Australia
Australia pressures Unesco over impact of climate change on Great Barrier Reef
29 August 2019, Guardian Australia
‘Hero for the Planet’ picks Exmouth Gulf for global publicity campaign
22 August 2019, WA Today
The Shark Show – what do we know? What should we know?
17 August 2019, It’s Just Not Cricket, ABC Radio National
Great Barrier Reef run-off rules riles farmers
10 August 2019, The Australian
COAG agenda covers Great Barrier Reef, infrastructure and recycling
09 August 2019, Cairns Post
Warming waters killing Great Barrier Reef faster than expected
09 August 2019, ABC Radio National, AM
Shark nets catching non-target species
05 August 2019, Sydney Morning Herald
Sugarcane farmers label scientific consensus on reef ‘unsubstantiated scaremongering’
01 August 2019, Guardian Australia
‘Cut greenhouse gases quickly’ to save reef
19 July 2019, The Australian
Great Barrier Reef authority urges ‘fastest possible action’ on emissions
19 July 2019, Guardian Australia
Traditional Owner knowledge pivotal to protecting Great Barrier Reef
17 July 2019, National Indigenous Times
‘What the hell?’ Man’s morbid act after catching tiny hammerhead shark
17 July 2019, Yahoo News Australia
Health check finds Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in trouble
11 July 2019, 9 News
Great Barrier Reef hard coral cover close to record lows
11 July 2019, Guardian Australia
Carmichael approval a death-knell for the Great Barrier Reef
08 July 2019, Down to Earth (India)
04 July 2019, The Australian
Japan restarts commercial whaling after 31 years
01 July 2019, Financial Times
Japan renews whaling after 30 years
01 July 2019, Triple J Hack, ABC Radio
Demand for whale meat is down. So why did Japan just resume commercial whaling?
01 July 2019, USA Today
Fears northern Australian mangrove forests could ‘drown’ due to rising seas
01 July 2019, ABC News
Humpback whale freed from shark nets in delicate rescue off Broadbeach
27 June 2019, ABC News
Campaign kicks off to make Great Barrier Reef an Australian citizen
26 June 2019, SBS News
Whale food shortage to blame for mass deaths in US
18 June 2019, The World Today, ABC Radio National
Seahorses Under Threat Because of Human Sex Treatment
15 June 2019, 10 Daily
Australia, in a Victory for Coal, Clears the Way for a Disputed Mine
13 June 2019, The New York Times
Adani mine: Australia approves controversial coal project
13 June 2019, BBC News
30 May 2019, Primer
Australian state leader calls for timeline on Adani coal mine approvals
23 May 2019, Reuters
Coral bleaching event underway in French Polynesia despite no El Nino
21 May 2019, ABC, Science
‘Vote for the climate’: NSW demands environmental short film’s removal from internet
18 May 2019, Guardian Australia
30 Sharks from Australia have died in a French Aquarium
15 May 2019, ABC, Triple J Hack
Thirty sharks captured on Great Barrier Reef died in captivity at French aquarium
15 May 2019, 9 News Digital, Guardian Australia
Thirty sharks captured on barrier reef and exported to France all died in captivity
15 May 2019, Guardian Australia
PM’s claim Coalition saved reef from nonexistent ‘endangered list’ condemned as ‘ridiculous’
13 May 2019, Guardian Australia
Conservationists call for ‘true ban’ on super trawlers
07 May 2019, ABC Radio National, AM
Supertrawlers have Aust ‘in their sights’
07 May 2019, SBS News – and other outlets
Plastic pollution features in Australian election
02 May 2019, Plastics News
‘A bigger responsibility’: why sustainable seafood is close to Ben Shewry’s heart
01 May 2019, Guardian Australia
20 April 2019, Sky News Australia
Sustainable seafood on the menu at Australia’s top restaurants
18 April, 2019 – ProBono Australia
Australia’s top restaurants pledge to serve only sustainable seafood
18 April, 2019 – Guardian Australia
What fish should you eat this Easter?
16 April, 2019 – Taste, The Courier-Mail
Pro shark groups blame Palaszczuk government for shark fishing in Great Barrier Reef
11 April, 2019 – The Courier-Mail
Grey nurse sharks discovered in NT waters could be genetic lifeline for species
06 April, 2019 – ABC News
Japan’s war on whales isn’t over – the Australian government must keep fighting
02 April, 2019 – Guardian Australia
Plastic Plan: Bill Shorten will ban single use plastic bags and micro-beads
31 March, 2019 – Nine News
Is your favourite seafood sustainable? Here’s how to find out
23 March, 2019 – ABC Radio National
Shocking photos show dead sharks made to ‘suffer and die’ on baited hooks
20 March, 2019 – The Mirror, UK
Popular shark deterrent actually a great white nope
19 March, 2019 – The Courier-Mail
Threat of sediment runoff to Great Barrier Reef worse than thought
12 March, 2019 – Brisbane Times
Experts warn we’re killing our oceans — and it starts with what you eat
12 March, 2019 – news.com.au
How to swap out your seafood for more sustainable choices
11 March, 2019 – SBS Food
Scientists, conservation groups welcome senators’ call for Great Barrier Reef cash to be returned
15 February, 2019 – SBS News
Calls for inquiry as Adani confirms it released contaminated water
12 February, 2019 – Guardian Australia