Australia's current air pollution standards are not strong enough to protect human health. Our national standards currently exceed the World Health Organisation's recommended thresholds and lag significantly behind most other countries, including the United States, the European Union and China.
Have Your Say on Single-Use Plastics in New South Wales
Take action for the oceans! Make a submission to the New South Wales Government's consultation on single-use plastics products.
12-15 million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean every year, killing one million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals. Around the world, between 70 and 100 million sharks die each year through fishing, shark finning and shark mitigation programs. Humpback whales communicate with complex songs that can be as loud as the sound of a jet plane (around 150 decibels).
The Oceanic Preservation Society is a non-profit organization that promotes marine conservation, helping to expose threats to our oceans and planet.
ERIN BROCKOVICH meets SILENT SPRING in this astounding true story of a lawyer who spent two decades building a case against one of the world’s largest...
Blue The Film. A marine conservation film about the hidden crisis lapping on our shores. Our Ocean has been the guardian of life on Earth. Now it is our turn to be guardians for the ocean.
A companion handbook to the BLUE the film.
The world’s platform for change
Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform, using technology to empower more than 200 million users to create the change they want to see.
Blue Marine Foundation - Creating partnerships for a healthy ocean
Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) is a charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health by addressing overfishing, one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. Our vision is a healthy ocean forever, for everyone.
Australian Legal Sector Alliance - Home
The Australian Legal Sector Alliance (AusLSA) is an industry-led association working collaboratively to promote best practice sustainability commitments and performance across the legal sector. AusLSA's sustainability framework includes sustainable and inclusive workplaces, community support, environmental conservation and responsible governance.
A Practitioner's Guide to the NSW Land & Environment Court
Published by Law Society of NSW -> young Lawyers
Climate change-related litigation was once seen as a joke, but it could soon become business reality
CEOs of Australia's largest companies realise there is a need to act.
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California lawmakers want to ban those little shampoo bottles you get in hotels
Those little shampoo bottles offered in hotel bathrooms, used once or twice and then usually tossed in the trash, could soon be a thing of the past in California.
Australia's biggest ever alliance of environment groups, protecting the laws that protect the places you love.
Air pollution: the battle to save Britain from suffocation
As environmentalists turn to the courts to make the government clean up its act, we survey a week of victories for ClientEarth and its founder, James Thornton
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
GARN held the International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Bonn, at the LVR Landesmuseum on the 7th and 8th of November 2017. The Tribunal offered the opportunity to visualize a world in which law and authorities work in the side of Nature. It tested new legal concepts...
National Environmental Law Reform
Australia desperately needs next generation environmental law reform.
EDO NSW - Defending the Environment, Advancing the Law
We are activist lawyers committed to securing a healthy planet. We use environmental law to protect oceans, forests, and other habitats as well as all people.
Environmental Defenders Office Queensland (EDO Qld)
EDO Qld is an independent community legal centre, that empowers you to use the law to protect the environment.
Qld Vegetation Protection -> Information Guide
On 3 May 2018, the Queensland Parliament passed new vegetation management laws that increase protection for high-value regrowth and remnant vegetation and boost protection for important habitats, including waterways leading to the Great Barrier Reef. Image courtest of Joseph Pérez: Unsplash
Request a free vegetation map or property report be emailed to you.
Obtain maps to determine clearing requirements for your property in Queensland.
Queensland Globe - Vegetation Maps
Vegetation maps can be viewed through Queensland Globe. After you’ve accessed the Globe: Zoom in to the area of interest on the map or use the search function. On the left-hand side of the screen, click Layers. An All Layers panel will appear. At the top of the panel, click Add layers. Click the down arrow next to Biota (Flora & Fauna) to expand that layer. Select Vegetation management information. Select the map/s you want to display.
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