A Letter from Kelvin Davies - CEO of Rainforest Rescue - Helping to Save the Cassowaries!

I’m urging everyone to do their bit to help save the endangered Cassowary. It’s estimated there are only 1000 remaining in wild in Australia. If you are in the US or Canada please click this link to made a donation to support the purchase of rainforest that is important Cassowary habitat.

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/protect-rainforest-save-the-cassowary-australia/

This video helpfully explains how people in the US and Canada can help save the endangered Cassowary through the Global Giving. Please watch the video then ‘share’ this on Facebook. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GVDlspvLpA&feature=youtu.be

Rainforest Rescue has launched its appeal to buy a 16th Daintree rainforest property for the endangered Cassowary. They need your help to purchase Lot 8 Buchannan Creek Road as a special place. Each $5 will buy 1 sq metre of the rainforest and protect it forever. Please read this story.
http://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/Protect_Rainforest_Forever.html

How about giving something back to our wild things, this festive season. Plant a tree for the endangered Cassowary. Check out Rainforest Rescue for more information. http://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/shop/Gift_Card_CassowaryCare.html

New BOB IRWIN Videos Just Posted!

Bob Irwin Wants a Khaki Army of Wildlife Warriors in London for Protest About Killing Sea Turtles and Dugongs in Australia!  Get your CRIKEY gear on!

WATCH HERE

Dugong and Sea Turtle Campaign with BOB IRWIN 

WATCH HERE

Bob Irwin is in South Australia to see why wombats are buried alive!

WATCH HERE!

FIND OUT MORE at SAVE AUSTRALIA'S DUGONGS AND TURTLES

Bob Irwin Shuns Animal Politics

Bob Irwin has announced he will NOT be contesting the seat of Ashgrove.  Click here to read more.

MEDIA RELEASE

Bob Irwin has taken the rare step of appearing in a series of television commercials calling for an immediate moratorium on the hunting of endangered dugongs and sea turtles around the Australian coastline by Indigenous hunters under Native Title.

And in Queensland, the only state in Australia having no cruelty laws in relation to indigenous hunting, Bob has decided to speak out.

Hundreds of the endangered animals are washing up dead along our coastline from unknown causes, and uncontrolled and unmonitored hunting is a pressure they do not need.

The commercials will be aired in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland for two weeks beginning on Steve Irwin Day September 4^th.

James Epong, an Indigenous Australian and son of Elders and Sea Country people of the Mandubarra mob Henry and Nellie Epong, joins Bob's call for a moratorium.

Ben Cropp, world renowned marine documentary maker and diver, will also appear in separate commercials, calling for the same, over the two week period.

In light of Australia's opposition to Japan's whaling, they feel we should clean up our own backyard first.

Link to all three clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9moinJ0TM8

Link to cruelty: http://youtu.be/6lT9QLrQITk

All media enquiries to be directed to Colin Riddell:
mobile 0427632208,  home 07 40454034.

Email dugongman@gmail.com     Website http://dugongandturtles.webs.com/

Please understand that if we continue to destroy our natural world, we will destroy ourselves.  Do you want our future generations to eat contaminated food and drink poisoned water??  There is not doubt this is the path that our corrupt governments and the mining industries are working towards.

Get off your bums NOW and please stand up and fight for our beautiful country.  We've just been sent this article from 'Lock the Gates.'    

Bob

Fellow Queenslanders, we desperately need your help.

Please circulate this to everyone you know – this has come from prominent Environmental Activists who know how to find where the permits have been granted.

You should be aware – and deeply concerned - that these stories are NOT being reported in the Queensland media – and Regional Councils like Toowoomba are not even telling their residents.

Mining of this magnitude will destroy our great state of Queensland as we know it – all to save two broken and busted Governments.

In 20 years we will be a slag heap, our waters will be polluted, our Artesian Basin sucked dry – and we will have nothing left to feed our people.

Please LOCK THE GATE and prepare to stand up and fight – our farmland and our way of life is worth it.

Virtually the entire Darling Downs is now covered by coal permits of one form or another.  The South Burnett will be next, as well as the Brisbane Valley.

Ambre Energy has a mining lease application over 2000 ha of Felton Valley, as well as around 70,000 ha under exploration permits all the way from Toowoomba to Warwick.

Newmont has a mineral development license over 13000 ha south of Felton.

Acland (New Hope mine) is currently in Stage One which covers 2,2000 ha. By Stage Three – with the Environmental Impact Study now awaiting rubber-stamp approval – it will include an additional 5,400 ha, giving the mine a total area of 7,400 ha. New Hope Coal owns all the farmland almost to Oakey showground, and east out to Goombungee.

Other mining leases in the East Acland area amount to an area around 40 sq km.

· Haystack Plain: 13,000 ha of iconic Darling Downs farmland. Tarong Energy – which is wholly owned by the Queensland Government – owns the Mineral Development Licence for the coal deposit under the Haystack Plain.

Tarong Energy representatives have stated that they have more than enough coal to service the Tarong Power Station for its entire operating life (25years+) without using the Haystack coal deposit.
They are, however, now reviewing the asset with the intention to sell the Mineral Development Licence to another company. The Haystack coal deposit is export quality coal and is likely to be exported.’

There are exploration leases or applications for leases over the entire towns of

Warwick, Highfields, Meringandan, Gowrie, Kingsthorpe, Pittsworth, Oakey, Gowrie Mountain, Hodgson Vale and Cabarlah.

There are also applications for bauxite mines near Crows Nest and nearby Geham.

There are bauxite exploration permits for 7,000sq kms of Qld, focused around Kingaroy and Pittsworth in particular.

There is a permit granted for a coal mine in the Brisbane Valley only 5 kms upstream from Somerset Dam – Brisbane’s major water catchment area.

The Qld State Government, the Toowoomba Regional Shire Council and a local developer are currently forcing through the biggest noxious and dangerous toxic industrial estate ever seen in regional Australia on the famous old grain and thoroughbred farm Wellcamp Downs – only ten minutes from the centre of the city.

At 600ha, it is double the size of the heavy industrial area for the entire city of Brisbane. The site – a famous grain farm – is an old koala habitat crossed by a creek that flows into the Murray-Darling. When the south-westerly winds blow in winter, noxious fumes will settle on the roofs of Toowoomba – and straight into rainwater tanks.

Despite the fact that Toowoomba is a Garden City with an economy based on farming, tourism, education and retirees, there have been no environmental studies on the site or buffering to protect nearby farms. One of Australia’s leading Urban Planners has described the proposal as ‘simply unbelievable - a blight on the landscape”.

There are now exploration leases or applications for leases over almost every major grain farm, thoroughbred farm and beef farm on the Darling Downs.

Australian Society for Kangaroos TV Commercial

Hello everyone,

As you know I've been speaking out against the Kangaroo Industry here in Australia for a number of years now - it is not sustainable - and soon we'll be hearing of the near-extinction of our beautiful kangaroos and wallaroos.

The Australian Society for Kangaroos has had a tv commercial produced speaking out against the industry and it's cruelty to our roos.

If you're in Australia, you'll be able to watch this commercial on the net, however, overseas people won't be able to watch it YET.  This is because of restricted music rights on the song that is played during the commercial.       Hopefully the problem will be resolved soon and then everyone will be able to watch the commercial.

The link below takes you directly to the TV ad and also the rest of their new website with lots of current information about the kangaroo industry and our other campaigns.

 

http://www.australiansocietyforkangaroos.org/advertisement.html

Thanks for watching!

 

Bob

Gas Coal Seam Fire Poison Horror

 COAL SEAM GAS INDUSTRY
What an absolute horror story! And all Australians should take note that this same gas industry has started in Australia.  So far only 5,000 wells have been dug (in America over 250,000 wells have gone down) - with huge problems already - not to mention the amount of toxic chemicals that will eventually end up in the Great Artesian Basin - water source for much of our wildlife as well as our cattle and the country folk who rely on the Artesian basin for their water supply.
Every citizen in every country should WATCH THIS CLIP! 
This video clip is 15 mins long - so take a look when you've got enough time.

And have a read of THIS ARTICLE too!

Our governments are totally corrupt and have no credibility whatsoever!

This link to the Four Corners Program aired on 21/2/2011 about the coal gas industry here and the problems it's produced already.

It's time EVERYONE had something to say about this disaster in the making!!!

Regards,
Bob Irwin