Automated environmental news summaries generated from iEnvi’s monitoring workflow.
🛰️ An 800-square-metre patch of cleared land is all it takes for satellite surveillance to trigger an EPA Victoria inspection. In partnership with researchers from the University of Melbourne, @EPA Victoria has launched a near real-time tracking tool that analyses satellite imagery every two weeks.
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Holding an EPA Victoria operating licence without a fully compliant risk management system is about to get much riskier. EPA Victoria has released its updated regulatory guideline for preparing Risk Management and Monitoring Programmes (RMMPs).
🔬 Congratulations to the research team at the University of Queensland on a biological remediation result that could reshape how we manage toxic mining tailings.
🐜 Congratulations to the Tiwi Rangers and @CSIRO on achieving a globally significant biosecurity milestone in the Northern Territory. After a painstaking two-decade campaign, Melville Island is now officially declared free of the highly destructive tropical fire ant (Solenopsis geminata).
⚠️ The detection of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in native Australian wild birds has triggered an emergency national response. Commonwealth, state, and territory environment ministers have convened an emergency meeting to coordinate a cross-jurisdictional response.
📋 Failing to align physical asset risk with the new national standards could leave your next development uninsurable. The federal government has released the final National Climate Scenario Guidance.
⚖️ “We allege Grill’d misled customers by overstating the extent of the donations it would make and the environmental contributions…”
ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb has made it clear that corporate sustainability campaigns are under the microscope.
📊 Over 25,000 hectares of parched floodplain are about to receive up to 80,000 megalitres of targeted environmental water.
🌊 Could your coastal land use or groundwater extraction be directly impacting a World Heritage marine park kilometres away? Recent research by the Australian Institute of Marine Science at Ningaloo Reef has mapped the direct connection between terrestrial aquifers and marine ecosystems.
🐋 Relying solely on water column concentration limits for coastal risk assessments is no longer scientifically defensible.