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We oughta be worried about our water
March 23, 2018
World Water Day is a day to celebrate a truly precious resource and a day to learn more about how we can protect it. This year the group focused on groundwater and in particular...
Read More ShareInternational Women’s Day
March 08, 2018
Women are the leaders of the environmental movement worldwide. Today we're celebrating International Women's Day and the role that women take in the politics, research and organising that is at the core of our...
Read More ShareLiving with the land
March 05, 2018
Mackay Conservation Group member Simon Gedda has been living on a grazing property south of Mackay all his life. Over the years his methods of managing the land have changed including his relationship with dingos....
Read More ShareUrannah dam doesn't make sense
March 01, 2018
Urannah dam has created many jobs over the years but only in the economics and engineering community. Over the past 50 years 18 studies have been undertaken into the feasibility of the dam by...
Read More ShareHow 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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