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Environmental Date Date(s) National Bird Day: January 5 International Zebra Day: January 31 World Wetlands Day: February 2 World Ostrich Day [3] [4] February 2 World Marmot Day [5] [6] February 2 World Pangolin Day [7] [8] Third Saturday of February World Whale Day [9] Third Sunday of February World Bonobo Day [10] [11] [12] February 14 World ...
5 June 2022: World Environment Day 2022: Sunday 51st: 5 June 2023: World Environment Day 2023: Monday 51nd: 5 June 2024: World Environment Day 2024: Wednesday 53rd: 5 June 2025: World Environment Day 2025: Thursday 54th: 5 June 2026: World Environment Day 2026: Friday 55th: 5 June 2027: World Environment Day 2027: Saturday 56th: 5 June 2028 ...
Following a media release on 18 August 2023, [7] it was announced that, as of 1 January 2024, the department would be split into two new entities: the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, and the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure.
The statues of Captain James Cook and Queen Victoria in Melbourne are vandalised on the eve of Australia Day. The statue of Cook is cut down and its plinth defaced with the words "The colony will fall". [62] Researchers Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer are named as 2024 Australians of the Year. [63]
A 2022 analysis found that Sky News Australia was a major source of climate misinformation globally. [220] Australia has recently experienced some of the most intense bushfire seasons in its immediate history. This phenomenon has sparked extensive media coverage both nationally and internationally.
Major contribution to protecting Australia's native plants and animals, ecosystems, and people from dangerous new invasive species [91] Australia: Peter Rawlinson Award: Australian Conservation Foundation: Outstanding voluntary contribution to the Australian environment [92] Australia: World Environment Day Awards: United Nations Association of ...
By 1993, the campaign was focusing more strongly on sorting the rubbish collected into recyclables, [15] and Kiernan was using Clean Up Australia Day to advocate for changes to legislation surrounding reduction of packaging and returning packaging to companies. [16] In 1994, over 8,000 sites were cleaned up as part of the day. [17]
The largest spill to date was the Kirki tanker in 1991 which dropped 17,280 tonnes of oil off the coast of Western Australia. In March 2009, the 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill occurred, where 200,000 litres were spilled from the MV Pacific Adventurer spilling more than 250 tonnes of oil, 30 tonnes of fuel and other toxic chemicals on ...