Sustenance meets sustainability at the Depot Collective Café
Sustenance meets sustainability at the Depot Collective Café
Delicious food, amazing coffee and sustainability all roll into one at the Depot Collective Café, located at The Joinery - the old Adelaide bus station given a new lease on life.
Read moreABC News: Nuclear waste storage proposal draws ire of SA regional community on the ground
ABC North and West
By Angela Smallacombe
21 September 2016
Exposure 2016 Community Expo
Exposure 2016 saw communities from all over South Australia travel to Port Augusta earlier this month to join with locals and talk nuclear waste. More than 100 people joined Conservation SA Community Organiser Cat Beaton and Irati Wanti campaigner Clare Brown to engage in sessions and workshops, share ideas and a yarn, and to work together for future action against state and federal governments' plans to build nuclear waste dumps in SA.
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Draft Management Plan for the South Australian Commercial Gulf St Vincent Prawn Fishery
Conservation SA Response to Draft Management Plan for the South Australian Commercial Gulf St Vincent Prawn Fishery
Conservation SA welcomes the transition to more flexible management arrangements for this fishery but has two main concerns: a) the risk assessment for by-catch of syngnathids does not adequately address the risk; and b) the limitations on consultation at an early stage in management initiatives for this fishery. Detail about the risk to syngnathids is included.
Proposed changes to Native Vegetation Regulations 2003
Conservation SA Response to the Proposed Changes to the Native Vegetation Regulations 2003 (August 16)
Conservation Council South Australia’s comments on the draft regulations have been made with the State of the Environment report and Objects of the Act in mind.
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Parks Management Plan Draft Amendments 2016 (July 16)
Parks Management Plan Draft Amendments 2016 (July 16) for the following parks:
- Onkaparinga River Reserve Management Plan 2004
- Morialta and Black Hill Conservation Parks Management Plan 2001
- Hallett Cove and Marino Conservation Parks Management Plan 2010
- Anstey Hill Recreation Park Management Plan 2006
- O’Halloran Hill Recreation Park Management Plan 2008
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Draft Adelaide Mount Lofty Ranges Bushfire Management Area Plan (BMAP) June 2016
Conservation SA comments on the Draft Adelaide Mount Lofty Ranges Bushfire Management Area Plan (BMAP) June 2016
There are many levels on which the Draft AMLR BMAP is unfinished and these are listed below. In summary, the Draft Plan contains serious flaws and omissions and is not ready to approve.
Response to the Nuclear Royal Commissions Findings
SA becoming the world's rubbish dump? Surely we can do better!
“The sense of rush from the Royal Commission should be raising alarm bells. Nuclear waste remains dangerous for tens of thousands of years. Community consent, particularly from Traditional Owners, is completely absent. This decision is too important to be made by a handful of politicians on North Terrace – it’s now up to all South Australians.”
- Conservation SA Chief Executive Craig Wilkins
Read our full statement:www.conservationsa.org.au/media_releases/we_can_do_better
YOU CAN TAKE ACTION – email the Premier and your local representatives now: www.conservationsa.org.au/nuclear_action
Strong Murray stand essential as negotiations get critical
MEDIA RELEASE
11 March 2016
Strong Murray stand essential as negotiations get critical
The Conservation Council of SA is calling on all states and the federal government to deliver on their previous promises of Murray water flows for SA as the leaders meet today to thrash out the future of the Murray Darling Basin Plan.
And the state’s peak environment body has strongly welcomed the commitment from SA Environment Minister Ian Hunter to stand firm in the face of pressure from upstream states to water down the Plan.
“The Murray is SA’s lifeblood,” said Conservation SA’s Chief Executive, Craig Wilkins.
“We South Australians have every right to believe a deal was previously done to deliver 3,200 gigalitres of environmental flows to help keep the River healthy.
“That was what was promised and that is what we expect to be delivered in full.
“So it’s deeply worrying to hear that there is a push from upstream states to deliver less than what the River, and the South Australian communities who rely on it, need.
“The 3,200 gigalitres that was previously agreed to is the absolute, rock bottom minimum the River needs.
“We strongly support today’s fighting words from the Weatherill Government. It is absolutely essential they continue to stand up for the Murray and our state’s interests,” he said.
Negotiations are set to continue in the lead up to the final sign-off of Plan on-ground works in June.
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Media Contact:
Craig Wilkins 0417 879 439