News Articles for Australian Marine Conservation Society

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Gas exploration permits off the Western Australian coast have been granted to Chevron, Inpex, Melbana Energy and Woodside Energy, as part of long-awaited acreage release.

Australian supermarkets have been given an F for fail on plastic waste reduction, with an audit detailing some disturbing practices.

Parts of the Browse, Perth, Bonaparte and Northern Carnarvon basins will be opened to offshore greenhouse gas carbon capture exploration, as part of an acreage release.

A huge area of ocean around two remote Australian territories will be protected as part of the federal budget, leaving conservationists grinning.

The opposition says the federal government needs to go back to the drawing board on its proposed network of marine parks.

Environmentalists are angry and commercial fishermen fearful after the federal government revealed plans for expanding oil and gas exploration in Australian waters.