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One of the notable issues with marine conservation in Australia is the protection of the Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef's environmental pressures include water quality from runoff, climate change and mass coral bleaching, cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish, overfishing, and shipping accidents.
The World Resources Institute estimates that Australia was responsible for 1.1% of all CO 2 emissions between 1850 and 2002. [14] Consolidated historical data measures Australia's total fossil fuels and cement production emissions (excluding LULUCF) at 18.18 billion tons out of the world's 1.65 trillion tons, or 1.10%.
Major environmental issues in Australia include whaling, logging of old growth forest, irrigation and its impact on the Murray River, Darling River and Macquarie Marshes, acid sulfate soils, soil salinity, land clearing, soil erosion, uranium mining, nuclear waste, the creation of marine reserves, [16] air quality in major cities and around ...
[123] [4] [124] Much of the government and institutional policies related to climate change and environmental issues in Australia has been done so through a top down approach. [125] Indigenous communities have stated that this limits and ignores Aboriginal Australian voices and approaches.
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Other environmental issues within the scope of the movement include forest protection, climate change and opposition to nuclear activities. [4] [5] In Australia, the movement has seen a growth in popularity through prominent Australian environmentalists such as Bob Brown, Peter Garrett, Steve Irwin, Tim Flannery, and David Fleay.
Australia is the only western country to have large areas of rainforest intact. [4] Forests provide timber, drugs, and food and should be managed to maximize the possible uses. Currently, there are a number of environmental movements and campaigners advocating for action on saving the environment, one such campaign is the Big Switch. [5]
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