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6 reasons the Great Barrier Reef needs you to divest right now
|A green returning to the ocean after laying her eggs on Heron Island overnight. The excursion to Heron Island is a fact finding mission to a research station there as part of Greenpeace’s Save the Reef campaign.|Fringing coral reefs off Holbourne Island National Park display the biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The…
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Twas the night before Christmas…
According to Tony Abbott and Greg Hunt, there’s nothing as damaging as a bit of red tape and bureaucracy to slow down economic growth. But what does fast-tracking, cutting red tape and streamlining approvals really mean for the places we love? Here’s what Abbott’s and Hunt’s ‘fast-tracking’ really means: Building a coal port at Abbot…
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The Great Barrier Reef belongs to all of us.
Could the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area become one of the largest coal ports in the world? The Australian Government has approved construction of the devastating Carmichael mega-mine. This coal mine would be the largest Australia has ever seen. Its coal would produce a shocking 130 million tonnes of deadly carbon dioxide emissions every…
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On the fast track to Reef destruction
The Great Barrier Reef is a national icon. It’s a place people all over the world travel to Australia to see. It’s the world’s largest reef. Now all of this is at risk. It’s an absolute outrage that the Government would allow Indian mining giant Adani to dredge millions of cubic metres of seabed within…
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10 reasons why funding reef destruction is bad for business
Amazing news for the Reef! One of the world’s top investment banks Citi – has joined Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Barclays by stating they will not fund Reef destruction by financing the new Abbot Point coal terminal. If foreign banks aren’t willing to finance the development of coal ports in the…