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MEDIA RELEASE: World’s largest shareholder vote to save a species
November 14, 2024
At Coles AGM today, nearly 40% of shareholders rallied against the board’s recommendation and supported a world-first resolution that calls on the company to address the impacts their farmed seafood, such as Macquarie Harbour salmon, has on endangered species like the Maugean Skate. This...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Woolworths shareholders in historic vote to save the Skate
November 01, 2024
At Woolworth’s AGM today, over 30% of Woolworths’ shareholders railed against the Board's recommendation and supported a resolution for the company to address the impacts their farmed seafood, such as Macquarie Harbor salmon, has on endangered species. The resolution was filed by a group...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Tassie shareholders lodged world-first resolution to prevent Maugean skate extinction
November 01, 2024
Tasmanians will raise their concerns about the plight of the endangered Maugean skate directly with the Woolworths board at the company’s AGM in Sydney on October 31. Salmon farming is a “catastrophic” threat to the skate’s survival. Only 40 to 120 adult skates...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Minister must act now, regardless of uplisting delay for Maugean Skate
October 30, 2024
Overnight the Australian Government quietly published an extension for assessing whether the ancient Maugean skate should be uplisted from Endangered to Critically Endangered. The assessment was due this Wednesday 30th October 2024, but has now been delayed until 30th Oct 2025. Only an estimated...
Read MoreTasmania’s Government held to account over the state of the environment
October 19, 2024
Today, 20 environment groups have signed an open letter calling on the Rockcliff Government to acknowledge the damning findings from Tasmania’s 2024 State of the Environment Report and commit to reversing the state’s environmental declines. It has been a month since the 2024 Report...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Tasmania’s environment is in a state of decline confirms official environment report
September 18, 2024
Yesterday, Tasmania’s new State of the Environment Report was published. The report provides a health check of Tasmania’s natural environment and how well it’s being managed. The report is deeply concerning with 27 out of the 29 indicators, used in the report to assess...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Dud deal with Dutton on nature laws would betray communities and nature
September 12, 2024
11 September 2024 Conservation Councils from all Australia States and Territories are calling on the Albanese Government to rule out a deal with the Liberal Party that would weaken proposed Nature Positive laws. The groups are calling on the Government and Senate Crossbench to...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Tassie businesses call for the removal of salmon farms to safeguard the Maugean skate
September 11, 2024
MEDIA RELEASE 11 September 2023 For immediate release: Tassie businesses call for the removal of salmon farms to safeguard the Maugean skate In an open letter to the Federal Environment Minister, the newly launched Business Alliance for the Maugean skate (BAM) highlights the risk...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Woolworths faces world’s first shareholder resolution to prevent an extinction
September 04, 2024
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths will be the first company in the world to face a shareholder resolution aiming to prevent an extinction event. At the Woolworths AGM on 31 October, company shareholders will be asked to vote on whether Woolworths should stop sourcing farmed...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Decade-late State of the Environment Report should be immediately released
August 30, 2024
Decade-late State of the Environment Report should be immediately released Today, 28 organisations have signed an open letter to the Rockliff Government calling for the immediate publication of the first State of the Environment Report in 15 years and for the government to act...
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