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Not just Lhere Mparntwe - Minister Worden visits Central Australia as Buffel Grass spreads across the Arid Lands
April 09, 2024
As Central Australia becomes smothered by highly invasive buffel grass, environmental campaigners and Aboriginal advocates met with the NT Environment Minister. The meeting on Monday 8th April 2024 continued calls for strong weed declaration...
Read More ShareArid Lands Environment Centre will not appeal Singleton Supreme Court decision
February 28, 2024
Arid Lands Environment Centre will not appeal Singleton Supreme Court decision, but vows to fight on and stop Australia’s largest groundwater licence. On 31 January 2024, the NT Supreme Court upheld the decision of...
Read More ShareEnvironmental group vows to keep fighting after the NT Supreme Court rejects challenge to mammoth water licence for Singleton Station
January 31, 2024
Environmental group vows to keep fighting after the NT Supreme Court rejects challenge to mammoth water licence for Singleton Station A major threat to water security, ecosystems and cultural heritage in one of the...
Read More ShareMedia Release: Water allocation and buffel grass burning topics during meeting with NT Environment Minister today
December 13, 2023
Mparntwe Alice Springs 13 December 2023 Environmentalists, water justice campaigners and a Central Land Council ranger met with the NT Environment Minister this morning calling for strong weed declaration on buffel grass and for...
Read More ShareMEDIA RELEASE: Highly Flammable Buffel Grass Threatens the Health of Territorians
December 11, 2023
Peak health organisations, firefighters call for buffel grass weed declaration Mparntwe Alice Springs 11 12 2023 Health services are expecting to be under further pressure as Central Australia faces its worst fire season in...
Read More ShareMedia Release: Organisations across Central Australia call for Weed Declaration on Buffel Grass
November 15, 2023
15 November 2023 Mparntwe Alice Springs Thirty-nine organisations from across Central Australia and nationally have signed an open letter calling on NT Minister for the Environment Kate Worden to declare buffel grass...
Read More ShareMedia Alert, Mparntwe: Buffel weed declaration information night THIS WEDNESDAY @6pm (15.11.23)
November 14, 2023
14 November 2023 Mparntwe Alice Springs Buffel grass weed declaration information night When: 6pm-7.30pm tomorrow, (Wednesday, 15 November) Where: The Roastery (DuYu), 9 Hele Crescent What: This Buffel Grass Weed Declaration...
Read More ShareMEDIA RELEASE: NTG blows it with Georgina Wiso Water Allocation Plan
November 14, 2023
Mparntwe Alice Springs 13/11/2023, updated 17/11/2023 The Northern Territory Government released the Georgina Wiso Water Allocation Plan (GWWAP) on Friday 10th November 2023 at 4pm. By allocating too much water, without any meaningful guidance...
Read More ShareCommunity speaks out against buffel, demand action to prevent catastrophe
August 16, 2023
Community members came together in a snap protest to call on the Northern Territory Government and Federal Government to act decisively on buffel, outside the front of the Member for Lingiari, Marion Scrymgour’s office....
Read More Share‘Understatement of the year’: Singleton Station environmental referral underplays impacts to water, culture and environment
February 08, 2023
The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) has significant concerns that Fortune Agribusiness'environmental approvals referral to the Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority (NTEPA) completely underplays the significant impacts its development may pose to ecological, hydrological...
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