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How will climate change affect Mackay?
March 01, 2018
Mackay Conservation Group community organiser, Maggie Mckeown, recently made a presentation to Mackay Regional Council about the impacts of climate change on the region. Here's what she said. Mackay city is a low lying...
Read More Add your reaction ShareAdani's drain on Farmers
February 23, 2018
At the Mackay premiere of the Stop Adani documentary, A Mighty Force, local cane grower Michelle Ready explained to locals why she is so passionate about stopping Adani's mega-mine. My name’s Michelle and I’m...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareAustralia is a global top-ten deforester – and Queensland is leading the way
November 21, 2017
Noel D Preece, James Cook University and Penny van Oosterzee, James Cook University When you think of devastating deforestation and extinction you usually think of the Amazon, Borneo and the Congo. But eastern Australia...
Read More Add your reaction ShareLet’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
October 19, 2017
Brendan Wintle, University of Melbourne and Sarah Bekessy, RMIT University Earlier this month, Australia’s outgoing Threatened Species Commissioner Gregory Andrews told ABC radio that land clearing is not the biggest threat to Australia’s wildlife....
Read More Add your reaction ShareThe lazy person's guide to saving the world
August 15, 2017
Saving the world isn’t an easy task. However, even the smallest of actions can have a big collective impact. Recently, the United Nations released an article ‘A Lazy Person's Guide to Saving the World’...
Read More Add your reaction ShareMackay says No to Adani
August 15, 2017
A community survey released today by the Mackay Conservation Group has uncovered overwhelming opposition in Mackay to the Adani Carmichael mine and the special treatment it is receiving from the government. Almost 80 per...
Read More Add your reaction ShareWater is life
July 13, 2017
Stop Adani Mackay and the Mackay Conservation Group joined groups from across Australia in a #waterislife roadside protest last weekend. In drought stricken Queensland, water is one of our most precious resources, and the...
Read More Add your reaction ShareToday is World Sea Turtle Day!
June 16, 2017
Today, we are celebrating World Sea Turtle Day! These beautiful reptiles have nested on parts of the Queensland coast for thousands of years, so of course they deserve their own day dedicated to their...
Read More Add your reaction ShareCoal contaminating our waterways - Why it matters?
May 26, 2017
Despite the fact that the Australian coal trade has moved on average 360 million tonnes of coal annually over the past 8 years, there has been very little research into the effects of coal...
Read More Add your reaction ShareKoalas heading for extinction in SE Qld
May 24, 2017
Tree clearing is destroying koala habitat so fast in South East Queensland that there may be no koalas left there in a couple of years. Here in Central Queensland trees are being destroyed at...
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