Media releases: Healthy Oceans
Australians love their coast. More than 85 per cent of Australians live near it, and the number is steadily increasing. But we are now in danger of losing the very thing we love.
ACF's Healthy Oceans campaign is working towards a national network of large marine sanctuaries, an Australian oceans act for effective oceans planning, and the sustainable harvesting and production of seafood. An what we do in the oceans need to be integrated with what we do to look after our coasts.
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Please join Australian Conservation Foundation Executive Director, Don Henry at this interactive cooking competition at The Terrace, to learn how we can all protect our oceans by choosing sustainable seafood. more »
Out of sight, out of mind: The Kimberley oil spill
A gigantic oil spill from from Wollongong to Port Macquarie? From Wilsons Promontory to beyond the NSW ...
Garrett gets message on our marine life
Western Australia’s marine life is unique but less than 1% of it is protected. Australians want that changed. In their thousands they have been signing postcards and online petitions to send a message to Environment Minister Peter Garrett.
Coral Sea: A step towards protection
Conservation groups have welcomed the announcement by Environment Minister Peter Garrett to establish a conservation zone over the entire Coral Sea within Australian waters.
Protecting Western Australia’s big blue backyard
It might be globally significant, of critical importance to Australia and vital to the lifestyle of Western Australians, but the marine environment off the south-west coast of Australia has been forgotten.
BayMonitor report on seagrass abundance
The Australian Conservation Foundation has released a provisional report to keep the community informed of the BayMonitor Program’s monitoring of the health of Port Phillip Bay.
BayMonitor reports on satellite analysis
The first provisional BayMonitor report, examining satellite analysis of the dredge plume from the channel deepening project in Victoria’s Port Phillip Bay, is out now.
Calls from the deep to protect ocean life
The discovery that blue whale calls are becoming deeper-pitched again shows that commercial whaling should never return to the world’s oceans.
Sustainable Seafood – Towards an Ocean Wise Australia!
The Australian Conservation Foundation is developing a new and exciting sustainable living initiative called Ocean Wise Australia.
Oceans and climate change
While most people have probably heard about the impacts that climate change will have on Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, its indirect effect on our very way of life due to rising ocean temperatures and changes to our coasts, fish stocks and marine life, may not be as widely know. more »