Shark Scientist Dr Leonardo Guida, on how Coles and Woolworths are continuing to source and sell farmed salmon from Macquarie Harbour, where operations are having a catastrophic impact on the endangered Maugean skate. Help us get 10,000 signatures before Coles and Woolies have their AGM’s within the next 4 weeks, and we’ll personally deliver them at their upcoming annual meetings. https://www.marineconservation.org.au/actions/maugean-coles-woolies-send-email/ | Australian Marine Conservation Soc

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Tasmania has a new government. It must do more to protect marine life. Currently, just 1% of the state’s ocean is fully protected in marine sanctuaries. Tasmania is particularly vulnerable to climate change with some waters heating at a rate 3 to 4 times the global average. Combined with other threats like heavy fishing pressure, intensive aquaculture, long-spined urchins chewing through kelp forests, more marine heatwaves looming, and an algal bloom across the border, it has created a perfect s