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Ningaloo Reef is a World Heritage treasure
The whale shark, the world’s biggest fish, is what draws people to UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Marine Park. These gentle giants congregate at Ningaloo, nestled on the Western Australian coastline near Exmouth, between March and August each year, thrilling thousands of visitors and fuelling the area’s booming tourism industry. A Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) swims…
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Welcome to Shark Bay
Shark Bay, located at the most westerly point of Australia, is one of a handful of marine World Heritage sites across the globe. It’s home to some of the planet’s most extraordinary creatures, including the oldest lifeforms on Earth, as well as dugongs, turtles and, of course, sharks.
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The Abrolhos Islands: Coral Refuge
Often described as the Galapagos Islands of the Indian Ocean, there are few places in Australia wilder than the remote Houtman Abrolhos Islands, a marine archipelago of 210 islands off the coast of Geraldton, Western Australia. Greenpeace oceans campaigner Franzi Saalmann inspecting coral at Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia.| The Abrolhos Islands are a biodiversity hotspot,…
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Whale Spotting in Perth Canyon with Dr Olaf Meynecke
Most tourists who visit Perth make it out to Rottnest Island to visit the cute quokkas and marvel at the island’s lonely wind turbine, which once attracted the wrath of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott. But just beyond Rottnest lies a much less-explored region - Perth Canyon, one of the best places in the world to…
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Woodside’s Sinking Toxic Oil Tower
Woodside, Australia’s biggest gas company, has a big problem that it’s trying to hide, and they’re looking to hide it in one of our most precious ocean environments. We recently uncovered that Woodside has dumped a rusty, dilapidated oil tower near UNESCO World Heritage listed Ningaloo reef off the West Australian coast – and it’s…
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Pygmy blue whales: Six fascinating facts about Australia’s smallest big whale
You've heard of the largest animal on the planet, the blue whale, but what about its smaller cousin the Pygmy Blue Whale?
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Submit your comment to help stop Woodside’s climate destruction
Now’s our chance to challenge Woodside’s 50-year gas extension We just heard that Tanya Plibersek, the federal Environment Minister, is reviewing Woodside’s bid to extend its dirty gas processing facility to 2070. That means we have until 24 November to flood the environment department with public comments on the dangerous climate impacts of Woodside’s North…
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Ask your MPs and Senators to #BlockBrowse
Woodside’s Browse gas project will be reviewed soon – it’s time to take action! The clock is ticking both in Western Australia and Canberra. The clock signals our window of opportunity to stop something massive. |Humpback whales travel north to the warm waters of Ningaloo Gulf to give birth to calves but sometimes they don’t…
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Woodside’s Browse project is a climate wrecker
Check out Midnight Oil’s mic drop moment Playing to full crowds in Perth, Canberra, and Sydney, with Woodside management and politicians in attendance, the rock legends stopped their show mid-way through to slam Woodside’s Burrup Hub gas project – and its newest phase, Browse. Iconic protest band Midnight Oil had a stellar mic drop moment…
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What is the North West Shelf – and why does it matter?
Community and legal opposition to the Burrup Hub is surging. You might have heard us celebrating a record number of appeals lodged last month against Woodside’s North West Shelf extension to 2070. So what does it all mean, and why does it matter?