Following is a list of relevant news articles about the Wild Australia programme.
| February 08, 2010 | More criticism of government's handling of oil spill | Professor Meeuwig supports the Save our Marine Life coalition which is calling for sanctuaries to protect life off Australia's south-west coast. |
| January 25, 2010 | Scientists call to preserve woodland | LEADING scientists have had enough of the Great Western Woodlands being unprotected and recently held a press conference to discuss a petition urging the WA Premier and Environment Minister to protect the woodlands.
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| November 18, 2009 | Interview with Channel Country Campaign Partner -- Angus Emmott, Australian Floodplain Association | Angus Emmott's Channel Country backyard takes in 50,000 hectares. He's seen years of drought but has to be ready for the rains too, which can isolate his property for up to three months. |
| November 02, 2009 | Massive fire blazes on leaking Australian oil rig | Environmental groups have criticised the government's handling of the spill, saying it is threatening bird and marine life off Western Australia's resource-rich north coast. "We are ranking it as a major environmental disaster," John Carey, a spokesman for the global Pew Environment Group, told AFP, adding that oil was a slow and silent killer for many marine species. The area was a "marine superhighway for species moving in and out of the region so it's an area of global importance," he said. |
| November 02, 2009 | Australia Rig Fire | Wild Australia's John Carey on CNN International |
| October 30, 2009 | High fire danger | One area where there is no doubt there is an increase in fire frequency is in the 16-million hectare Great Western Woodlands in the south-west corner of Western Australia. Forest ecologist Dr Alexander Watson, of the Wilderness Society, says recent studies by Australian National University researchers has shown about 4.5 million hectares of the area has been burned in the past 36 years. But more than half of that area — 2.5 million hectares — has been burned in the past seven years. |
| October 30, 2009 | Gas leak makes two in the Timor Sea | DAVID WEBER: The Pew Environment Group says the fact that there's now two separate leaks highlights the need for greater protections. The group's director, Barry Traill: BARRY TRAILL: What this does is it adds to the evidence that oil and gas has very significant risks. Really the only way to get protection of Kimberley's marine life from these sort of things is by establishing large marine sanctuaries. We need to question whether there should be the unfettered access which industry has had to date. |
| October 28, 2009 | Fish left floundering in a sea of injustice | Michelle Grady, of PEW environment group, who attended the Hobart screening, works to secure marine parks in Australia, areas where fishers may not go and stocks are given a chance to recover. She said much of the ocean used to be protected by default -- it was too difficult to get to. Now practically nowhere in the world is too hard for big factory ships to reach. |