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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
By MARIAN WILKINSON ENVIRONMENT EDITOR November 23, 2009 THE collapse of the Coorong wetlands at the mouth of the Murray River is shaping up to be one of the Australia's worst environmental disasters, an author of a report on the region said yesterday. Bird numbers in the region have fallen dramatically and freshwater turtles continue to die in large numbers. Professor Richard Kingsford...
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Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The collapse of the Coorong wetlands at the mouth of the Murray River is shaping up to be one of the Australia’s worst environmental disasters, an author of a report on the region said yesterday. Bird numbers in the region have fallen dramatically and freshwater turtles continue to die in large numbers. Professor Richard Kingsford said estimates of waterbirds for the region were 250,000...
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Public Opinion (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
As we know the rivers and wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin experience water scarcity because state governments divert too much water primarily for irrigation. This is the over-allocation problem that the federal government is struggling to fix. Richard Kingsford, the director of the Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre, University of...
