In the Media ...

Blueprint to protect the Future of Australia's oceans revealed

Released Thursday 11 November 2010 For the first time, a scientifically-based blueprint for managing Australia’s oceans has been developed to safeguard marine life and protect economic and social interests as well.

• ABC AM Program - audio
• ABC AM program - full transcript
• ABC 666 Canberra & ABC 702, syndicated to loads of region
• ABC 612 Brisbane (scroll down)
• UQ News
• ABC1 Midday show
• ABC News 24, Nth West WA & ABC News Radio
  
• The Australian
• Environment News Serfice - ENS news wire
  
• FIS.com
• FishWrecked.com
• Adelaide Advertiser - Particularly important as next week the SA Government will release a draft sanctuary zoning maps for the state waters parks. They are pitching low - 30% of the 19 marine parks which is around 12% of state waters – so the timing of this report release is perfect.
•  WIN Western Australia (Perth)
• ABC1 Darwin, ABC News
• ABC Darwin, Drive program
• Channel 10 Adelaide
• ABC South Coast WA
• ABC 891 Adelaide News - Wildcatch Fisheries SA disputing the report
• ABC West Coast SA (Port Lincoln) - more Wildcatch SA comments.
• ABC South West WA (Bunbury) - Tim Nicol Conservation Council of WA Interviewed

The Greens response ...

The Tasmanian Liberals  response ...

Conservation Biology paper - assessing the capacity of Australia's Protected areas to protect endangered species

Australasian Science Magazine:

Could big business carbon investment save endangered species?

Paper discussing cross-boarder conservation, an AEDA international collaboration, gets lots of press.  The paper:

• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• American Friends of the Hebrew University
  
• Russian Friends of the Hebrew University
  
• Planet Earth - India
  
• Science Daily
  
• Wildlife Extra
• Florida Today
• Treehugger.com
• First Science Breaking News

ABC NewsMail - morning edition - WEB SITE

*Grizzlies, polar bears breeding because of climate change*

Drs James Watson and Liana Joseph were commissioned by the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the ARts (DEWHA) to prodice an independent report on the recent annd ongoing Timor Sea oil slick.  More than 20 different media outlets have picked up on this. Click on any one of the links below to go to media reports:

Sylvaine and Iadine did a bit of translating of Carissa’s interview (see link below) and basically it says that MPA are very important and have been successful in Australia.  It also discusses the new reserves system that Canberra will invest in, mentioning Peter Garrett and GBRMPA, and says that Canberra signed an agreement with the six countries from  the coral triangle to help them protect their pretty-beautiful marine areas.

However, Iadine thought the journalist was playing on words “… comparing marine areas to “beautes marines” e.g. beautiful things from the sea (mermaids?). He’s trying to make us dream. There must be some king of advertising for travelling on the next page” and in fact she was right!  Yes, Sylvaine found an add for holidays on the next page of the paper!

For anyone who can read French, the article itself

An AEDA paper published in Conservation Letters on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) and biodiversity conservation hits 65 media outlets and radio.  Lead by Oscar Venter, an AEDA PhD student (www.aeda.edu.au), researchers from around the world have determined that REDD could offset deforestation if used in cost-efficient areas, such a Kalimantan.

Media outlets from all around the world have reported on this paper, including:

The Abstract is below, and the full paper can be downloaded HERE:

Abstract:

One reason for the rapid loss of species-rich tropical forests is the high opportunity costs of forest protection. In Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), the expansion of high-revenue oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations currently threatens 3.3 million ha of forest. We estimate that payments for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) could offset the costs of stopping this deforestation at carbon prices of US$10–33 per tonne of CO2, or $2–16 per tonne if forest conservation targets only cost-efficient areas. Forty globally threatened mammals are found within these planned plantations, including the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and Borneo pygmy elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis). Cost-efficient areas for emissions reductions also contain higher-than-average numbers of threatened mammals, indicating that there may be synergies between mitigating climate change and conserving biodiversity. While many policy and implementation issues need clarification, our economic assessment suggests that REDD could offer a financially realistic lifeline for Kalimantan’s threatened mammals if it is included in future climate agreements.

Los biólogos reclaman una red de ríos protegidos - Virgilio Hermosa and Simon Linke.

WEB SITEall in Spanish, but contact Virgilio for an interpretation

Bikini corals recover from atomic blast

Half a century after the last earth-shattering atomic blast shook the Pacific atoll of Bikini, the corals are flourishing again. Some coral species, however, appear to be locally extinct.

These are the findings of a remarkable investigation by an international team of scientists from Australia, Germany, Italy, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands. The expedition examined the diversity and abundance of marine life in the atoll.

Read the full report by Zoe Richards from JCU and Maria Beger, UQ & AEDA

 also reported on in New Scientist and bio-medicine