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Myponga Reservoir in South Australia. A National Pesticide Hotspot?
December 20, 2020
Myponga Reservoir on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula is the latest water body to be identified by Friends of the Earth as a pesticide hotspot.
Read More ShareWater Industry a Major Source of PFAS Contamination
December 13, 2020
Friends of the Earth is concerned that the $23 billion water industry is a major source of PFAS contamination over potentially tens of thousands of hectares of land across Australia. With the push on...
Read More ShareSolidarity with Bangladeshi communities saying NO to MAAR Ltd.’s toxic waste
November 20, 2020
Friends of the Earth Australia have signed on to a statement of solidarity (below) with Bangladeshi communities mobilising to protect their canals against the dumping of toxic industrial waste.
Read More ShareEPBC review - please write a submission
November 16, 2020
The federal government has been trying to ‘reform’ the environmental assessment laws for major projects. They have now tabled amended legislation, which was approved by the House of Representatives in September.
Read More ShareMicroplastics in Water
November 07, 2020
by Professor Alfred Poulos One of the most important properties of water is its capacity to dissolve, transport, or carry, a greatvariety of substances- solids, liquids, or even gases. Rivers and lakes, a major...
Read More ShareQ: What do synthetic clothing and the food we eat have in common? A: Micro Plastics
October 23, 2020
Plastics and synthetic textiles that are allowed to indefinitely degrade in the environment, gradually break down into smaller and smaller fragments. These breakdown products are called micro plastics and increasingly they are being detected...
Read More ShareTake Action: East Gippsland food bowl at risk from mining
October 19, 2020
Kalbar Operations Pty Ltd, a company with no experience operating a mine, is proposing a massive open-cut mineral sands mine at the Fingerboards, 20km north west of Bairnsdale in East Gippsland. This proposal will come with...
Read More ShareCrunch Time Looming for Maryvale Pulp Mill Supply
October 14, 2020
In late 2019, the Daniel Andrews Labor Victorian Government announced that by 2030 there would be no more native forest logging in Victoria. The Government said there would be a transition to plantations and...
Read More ShareQuantifying community concerns over drinking water quality in Australia
October 05, 2020
The Australian Drinking Water Map was created by Friends of the Earth (FoE) in November 2017 as an attempt to determine which communities around Australia are most concerned about the quality of their drinking...
Read More ShareThe significance of Strzelecki koalas in relation to the translocated koala populations of Victoria and South Australia.
September 13, 2020
The are two distinct koala populations in Victoria and South Australia. One is the endemic Strzelecki koala of South Gippsland Victoria and the other being koalas translocated from Victorian island populations throughout Victoria and...
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