Looking for brothers and sisters among juvenile white sharks has provided the final pieces of information needed to estimate the size of populations in Australian waters. Australia has two white shark populations, an eastern population ranging east of Wilson's Promontory, Victoria, to central Queensland and across to New Zealand, and a
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Energy Minister Ben Wyatt has today announced a joint venture by Energy Made Clean (EMC) and Lendlease has been awarded a $6.8 million contract for Western Power's 100 per cent renewable energy-powered microgrid project for Kalbarri. Western Power has engineered and designed the innovative solution which will be one of the
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An airborne electromagnetic survey will begin today over the Peel Food Zone to provide new and detailed information on potential water resources for the Transform Peel project. The data collected from the survey will be used to help assess the quality of the groundwater and model the potential impacts of future
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Applications are now open for the State Government's Community Grants Scheme (CGS). Environment Minister Stephen Dawson today urged community groups working on projects that reduce waste and boost recycling to apply for a CGS grant. The scheme supports projects that contribute to achieving the State's waste strategy targets - diverting 65 per
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The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development has called on Fremantle residents to help keep Western Australia free of an unwanted fruit fly. An adult female Queensland fruit fly (Qfly) was recently captured in a department surveillance trap in a residential area, just east of the Fremantle CBD. Department senior research
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Edith Cowan University and the State Government have partnered to monitor the ecological condition of Perth's urban wetlands in response to groundwater use and climate change. ECU has been appointed through a competitive process managed by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation to conduct wetland vegetation and macroinvertebrate and water
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With Western Australia's ban on lightweight single-use plastic bags just five months away, the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation is holding workshops to help people change the way they shop and do business. Environment Minister Stephen Dawson is urging the community to take advantage of the workshops - being held
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Western Australians are being urged to wage their own war on waste and have a say on the State's new waste strategy. Environment Minister Stephen Dawson has today called on the community, industry and local governments to participate in a series of workshops being held throughout WA in February as part
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The WA Government is offering $1 million to support projects that divert waste from landfill. Announcing the funding today, Environment Minister Stephen Dawson has called for projects that champion better waste management practices and improve awareness of the need to reduce waste. The Community and Industry Engagement program is an opportunity to
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Western Australians are being urged to start changing their plastic bag use with less than six months to go until the ban on lightweight, single-use plastic bags is due to come into effect. Public submissions have also opened on the plastic bags ban and can be made via an online survey or by
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