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‘NO DAM’ CAMPAIGN WEBSITES:

 

¨ Traveston Swamp News

      www.swampnews.squarespace.com 

 

¨ Save The Mary River Campaign Group

     www.savethemaryriver.com

 

¨ Sunshine Coast Environment Council Inc.

     www.scec.org.au

 

 

DOCUMENTARIES/VIDEOS:

 

¨ Stateline news reports (youtube): September 7, 2007 ... click here

 

¨ Steve Burgess Youtube docos … click here

 

¨ ‘Travesty Crossing—Damn’ - short video about the dam and its threat to the world’s oldest fish—the Queensland Lungfish ... click here

 

¨ Franklin Dam Protest 1983 ... Part 1 & Part 2

 

 

REPORTS/PAPERS/SUBMISSIONS:

 

¨ EIS Executive Summary ... click here

 

¨ EIS Submission guide ... click here

 

¨ Senate Inquiry Submissions ... click here

 

¨ ourgreatsandy.com S.I. submission … click here

 

¨ Fact Sheet Regarding Potential Impacts of Traveston Dam on the Lower (Northern) Catchment of the Mary River (SUT) ... click here

 

¨ EPBC EIS Senate Enquiry—information ... click here

 

¨ Save the Mary River Coordinating Group (STMRCG) Submission for the Terms of Reference (TOR) Environmental Impact Study (EIS) ... click here

 

¨ STMRCG Report ... click here

 

¨ Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) response ... click here

 

¨ ‘Ecological impacts of dams, water diversions and river management on floodplain wetlands in Australia’, by Richard Kingsford, now Professor of Environmental Science, University of NSW (UNSW) ... click here

 

¨ ‘Australia’s tropical river systems: current scientific and critical knowledge gaps for sustainable management’ ... click here

 

¨ Sustainable Rivers Project: ‘Ecosystem flows defined for Bill Williams River’ (US) ... click here

 

¨ Nature Conservancy: ‘Sustainable waters, Green River’ (US)  ... click here

 

¨ A study into the export of saline water from Hervey Bay, by Dr. Joachim Ribbe, University of Southern Queensland (USQ) ... click here

 

 

ARTICLES/MEDIA:

 

¨ ‘A Whisper from the Past’ - Radio Eye, Radio National podcast:

     A strange and ancient fish has emerged as an obstacle to the Queensland government's plans to dam one of the most beautiful river valleys in Australia … click here

 

¨ ‘Our Changing World—the Coorong’ ... click here

 

¨ Plight of the Mary River makes Nature Magazine’ … click here

 

¨ EIS Flow Chart … click here

 

¨ ‘Threatened  Fauna of the Mary River Catchment’ … click here

 

¨ ‘Sandy Strait - A Wetland of International Significance’

     (FIDO Moonbi newsletter) … click here

 

¨ Radio National’s Earth Beat—’Seagrass Watch’ … click here

 

 

OTHER WEBSITES/PAGES OF INTEREST:

 

¨ Fraser Island Defenders Organisation                 

     www.fido.org.au

               

¨ International Rivers Network (IRN

     www.irn.org

 

¨ World Commission on Dams

     www.dams.org

 

¨ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage

www.whc.unesco.org/en/about

 

¨ Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee (MRCCC)

     www.mrccc.org.au

 

¨ Ramsar Convention

     www.ramsar.org

 

¨ Convention on Migratory Species—Bonn

     www.cms.int

 

¨ Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBCA) ... click here

 

¨ Seagrass Watch

     www.seagrasswatch.org   

 

 

PHOTOGRAPHY & ART:

 

¨ Mary River Flotilla Protest photos—’Smugmug’

     www.razorsharp.smugmug.com/gallery

 

¨ Something in the Water: Debunking the myth of dams and rivers as a pure water source’ (Stop Press Visual Media: Activism in Pictures www.stoppress.com.au) … click here

 

¨ Take the ‘Great South East Queensland Dam Tour’ ... click here     (www.stoppress.com.au)

 

¨ Paintings inspired by Fraser Island and the Great Sandy Strait, by Contemporary Realist Robert Berry

     www.robertberry.net

 

¨ StewArt Photography

     www.stewartphotography.com.au

 

 

 

 

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