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• This Country Protected By Darrel Dept.: The Government Ain't Telling You Nothing

  Published: August 8, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Darrel Issa, Intelligence Spending, School Of The Americas, Secrets, This Country Protected By Darrel Dept

  Loose lips! They sink ships! You know it, we know it, Darrel Issa knows it … but do the ultraliberals in Congress now it? Apparently not. Those moonbats in Congress and on the 9/11...

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• Australia's north one of 'last great natural areas'

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:01 pm

  Tags: Environment, Endangered Protected Species, Environmental Management, Australia, Darwin 0800, Cairns 4870, Mount Isa 4825, Broome 6725, Karratha 6714

  A new scientific study has found north Australia is emerging as one of the last great natural areas on earth.

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• Fraser steps into anti-whaling campaign

  Published: September 4, 2007, 6:02 pm

  Tags: Environment, Endangered Protected Species, Federal Government, World Politics, Australia, Japan

  Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser has written an open letter to Prime Minister John Howard calling on him to do more to halt Japan's whaling program.

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• Hopes ranger program will save threatened butterflies

  Published: September 15, 2007, 9:22 am

  Tags: Environment, Conservation, Endangered Protected Species, Science Technology, Animals, Australia, Nhulunbuy 0880

  The Northern Territory's Environment Department has drafted a national recovery plan to save one of Australia's threatened butterfly species.

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• Humane Society takes Japanese whalers to court

  Published: September 18, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Conservation, Endangered Protected Species, Courts Trials, Australia, Japan

  A hearing against a Japanese whaling company has begun in the Federal Court.

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• Predators added to wildlife refuge

  Published: September 20, 2007, 9:00 pm

  Tags: Environment, Endangered Protected Species, Animals, Adelaide 5000, Port Augusta 5700, Port Lincoln 5606, Port Pirie 5540, Roxby Downs 5725, Whyalla 5600

  A conservation area near Roxby Downs for animals that are extinct in the wild in South Australia has been so successful that a natural predator is being introduced.

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• Cattle owner finds passion to protect rare croc

  Published: September 26, 2007, 1:29 am

  Tags: Environment, Conservation, Endangered Protected Species, Crocodile Attacks

  There are calls in the Northern Territory to establish a captive breeding program for a rare miniature crocodile.

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• European ban boosts Aust tuna export outlook

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:17 pm

  Tags: Trade, Environment, Endangered Protected Species, Environmental Management, Fishing Aquaculture, Adelaide 5000, Ceduna 5690, Port Lincoln 5606, Port Pirie 5540, Japan

  Australia's fishing industry is hoping to sell more bluefin tuna to Japan in light of fishing restrictions announced for European waters.

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• Cassowaries still at risk as rainforest recovers from Larry

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:00 pm

  Tags: Cyclones, Environment, Conservation, Endangered Protected Species, Qld, Cairns 4870, Mission Beach 4852

  Scientists say most of the far north Queensland rainforest that was shredded by Cyclone Larry in March last year has bounced back.

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• Researchers call for toad-proof fences to protect WA

  Published: October 9, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Environment, Conservation, Endangered Protected Species, Animals, Darwin 0800, Broome 6725

  Researchers are calling for toad-proof fencing to be urgently erected near the Northern Territory and Western Australia border.

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• Democrats call for greater koala habitat protection

  Published: October 26, 2007, 2:17 am

  Tags: Environment, Endangered Protected Species, Land Clearing, Government Politics, Elections, Federal Government, Democrats, Federal Election 2007, Australia, Qld

  Queensland Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett wants the Federal Government to halt land clearing in shrinking koala habitats until a strict development plan is implemented.

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• No charges over bird of prey shooting on Queen's estate

  Published: November 6, 2007, 3:46 pm

  Tags: Endangered And Protected Species, Royalty, United Kingdom

  No-one will be charged after the alleged shooting of two protected birds of prey on one of Queen Elizabeth II's country estates where Prince Harry had been shooting, prosecutors said.

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• Crocodile Hunter becomes a professor

  Published: November 7, 2007, 11:33 pm

  Tags: Environment, Endangered And Protected Species, Human Interest, People, Australia, Qld, Beerwah 4519, Brisbane 4000

  Environmentalist and television star Steve Irwin will posthumously receive a professorship for his research work with animals.

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• Japan wants Aussie protection during humpback kill

  Published: November 11, 2007, 3:14 pm

  Tags: Environment, Endangered And Protected Species, Australia, Japan

  Japan wants Australia to help protect its whaling fleet from what it calls "environmental terrorism" as it kills humpbacks in the Southern Ocean this summer.

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• International environmental crimes earn US$31 bln

  Published: November 14, 2007, 1:16 am

  Tags: Asia, Denpasar, Atul, Bagai, Bali, Billion, Crime, Criminal, Drug, Environment, Environmental, Hazardous, International, Natural, Ozone, Pacific, Protected, Resources, Sanur, Smugglers, Smuggling, Syndicates, Terrorism, Terrorists, Trafficking, Unep

  ""International crime syndicates earn US$22-31 billion annually from hazardous waste dumping, smu read more

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