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The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. It is being threatened by poor water quality from coastal rivers, Crown of Thorns starfish and climate change.  On top of all those threats, the Mercury reported...

Members of Lock the Gate and the Mackay Conservation Group travelled to central Queensland to get footage of several of the mines in the area in order to evaluate how much rehabilitation has been...

Great Barrier Reef Reaches Apocalypse Level Three Coral Bleaching Alert    2015 was the hottest year on record January 2016 - the hottest January on record February 2016 - the hottest month ever recorded...

Greenies! Tree huggers! They’re a couple of emotive terms for describing people who care about their local environment and want to see it protected for generations to come.While some people seem to think that the environmental...

Calling all MCG peeps and Mackay locals! RSVP to come along to our second Beautiful Walk for 2016. We will be meeting at Quota Park (crnr of Binnington Esplanade and Bridge Road) and walking all...

“We make it great in the Sunshine State!” went the old Queensland Government slogan in the 1970s and we are certainly doing a great job of using our sunshine in Mackay. The worldwide demand...

Urannah Dam has been in the news a lot over the past year. Politicians have been talking up the proposal as a potential source of new water for agricultural land around Bowen. However, there...

With female Black Flying-foxes giving birth and raising their young, we are again seeing an increase in numbers at several roosts around Mackay. The females elect to give birth in areas where there will...

It’s no surprise that mining creates a few environmental problems. One of the big ones is the costly exercise of restoring land after mining operations cease.Across Queensland there are over 15,000 abandoned mines where work...

Experiencing the Great Barrier Reef is on everybody’s bucket list. After all, it is the most spectacularly diverse ecosystem on the planet. The Reef is so big that you can see it from the...