"Digging dams in sensitive environments"
"A commercial farming company (Green Leaf Australia Group) and one of its directors have together been fined close to $300,000, for constructing and using dams without approval and impacting a "nationally significant" freshwater wetland in northern New South Wales."
"...The court found that some of the offences involved removing vegetation and clearing land, which caused harm to the environment, including nationally significant freshwater wetlands listed as endangered ecological communities.
"It's not just the environmental harm but also the Aboriginal cultural harm that's occurred though this offending, which Magistrate Scott Nash described as 'reckless and motivated for financial gain,'" Ms Stockley said."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/300k-fine-for-green-leaf-farming-company-and-director-over-dam/105006882
#wetlands #ecosystems #water #biodiversity #Ramsar #conservation #NSW #MidNorthCoast #ClybuccaAboriginalArea #harm #landclearing #irrigation #FinancialGain #extractivism
#Bundesregierung hat ihren nationalen Bericht zum Schutz, zur #Wiederherstellung und zur nachhaltigen Nutzung von #Feuchtgebieten im Rahmen der internationalen #Ramsar-Konvention vorgelegt
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WETLANDS IN A DRY LAND
More-than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, Emily O'Gorman
"What counts as a wetland, especially in Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth? In the name of agriculture, urban growth and disease control, humans have drained, filled or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Only recently have wetlands been widely recognised as worth preserving for their diverse plants, animals, insects, and their human histories."
"Situating Australia's history within global environmental humanities conversations, O'Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes that transcend the nature-culture divide and to embrace non-Western ways of knowing and being. Only then can we begin to create sustainable relationships with, and futures for, the wetlands."
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https://www.mup.com.au/books/wetlands-in-a-dry-land-paperback-softback
#wetlands #RAMSAR #rivers #MurrayDarlingBasin #MDB #environment #biodiversity #SocioecologicalLandscapes #Book #EnvironmentalHistory #destruction
#India Adds Three New #Ramsar Sites, Total Now at 85 #Wetlands
https://indianf.com/india-new-ramsar-sites-2024/#:~:text=India%20Adds%20Three%20New%20Ramsar%20Sites%2C%20Total%20Now%20at%2085%20Wetlands
Rejecting the Toondah Harbour development is an absolute no-brainer. Well done, Tanya Plibersek for putting the environment first! https://bit.ly/3Jabn4j
#wetlands #environment #Ramsar #birds
In a significant announcement on the eve of #WorldWetlandsDay 2024, Union Minister #BhupenderYadav revealed that #India has expanded its count of #Ramsar sites to 80, with the addition of five new #wetlands.
https://indianf.com/india-world-wetlands-day-2024-five-new-ramsar-sites/#:~:text=In%20a%20significant%20announcement%20on%20the%20eve%20of%20World%20Wetlands%20Day%202024%2C%20Union%20Minister%20Bhupender%20Yadav%20revealed%20that%20India%20has%20expanded%20its%20count%20of%20Ramsar%20sites%20to%2080%2C%20with%20the%20addition%20of%20five%20new%20wetlands.
Vor rund 50 Jahren wurde mit der Ramsar-Konvention ein UN-Abkommen zur nachhaltigen Nutzung von Feuchtgebieten beschlossen. Warum diese Konvention so wichtig ist, erklärt die Generalsekretärin der Ramsar-Konvention im Interview mit @ThomasKrumenacker https://www.riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/ramsar-feuchtgebiete-klima-natur-mensch-interview-generalsekretaerin-mumba
#ExtinctionIsForever #Auspol Will Australia preserve the internationally protected RAMSAR wetlands or give in to real estate bullies Walker Group who want to drain the mudflats and mangroves at Toondah to build high-rise apartments?
Victorian government will need to find a new site for Victorian Renewable Energy Terminal to construct #OffshoreWind turbines for Bass Strait offshore wind farms, as the Federal Environment Minister has rejected Port of Hastings as a site on Western Port due to its environmental impact on #RAMSAR #wetlands listing and importance for #biodiversity
Toondah Harbour: should a wetland home to endangered birds become $1.3bn worth of shops, high-rises and a marina?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/27/should-a-wetland-home-to-endangered-birds-become-13bn-worth-of-shops-high-rises-and-a-marina
"the loss of habitat along the flyway is a key reason for the loss of many migratory shorebirds – not just eastern curlews, whose numbers have dropped by two-thirds over the last 20 years."
Our @CopernicusLand Service includes products dedicated to monitoring parks and protected areas all over Europe, including Natura 2000 sites
More at http://land.copernicus.eu/local/natura
Soomaa National Park, in #Estonia
, both a #Ramsar and a #Natura2000 site
: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1661302417592406017
As the basin industrialized, the once ravishing water bodies began to dry. In fact, Tlaxcala's massive marsh was excluded as a Ramsar site. However, to this day, this area exists as one of the most important agricultural areas in Mexico, right by its capital and of its largest metro areas: Puebla-Apizaco #wetlands #ramsar #pollution #environment link: https://doi.org/10.17613/crnx-rw91 @geography