Entanglement in loosely draped backyard fruit tree netting is a trap for many native species, including threatened flying foxes. There are cheap and easy solutions for protecting backyard fruit trees and avoiding injury and death of native wildlife. Backyard netting entanglement is one threat that can easily be eliminated.

Mean global temperature could reach 2°C above pre- industrial levels by 2042, leading to significant impacts on Southern Ocean whales. According to state-of-the-art climate models, under 2°C global warming, the area of the Southern Ocean covered by sea ice is projected to shrink by an average of 10-15%. This reduction could be up to 30% in some regions, meaning that species that are heavily dependent on sea ice, such as the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) are projected to lose between 5-30% of ice-associated habitat within 40 years - little more than the life time of an individual whale.

With this report we want to take an economic angle in shedding light on the values we receive from the oceans and the life therein, but which we usually take for granted. The marine environment, its habitats and species have shaped and are still shaping our world, our culture and many people’s daily lives. We want to show what the loss of healthy oceans will mean to our economies and individual people’s incomes and livelihoods. We want to show what we loose if we don’t change.

At the start of the millennium the United Nations set a clear, measurable objective for biodiversity conservation. We are now only two years away from reporting on the target agreed by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2002: to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at global, regional and national levels as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on Earth. The EU countries also agreed in 2002 to a more ambitious target - to halt biodiversity loss by 2010.

The pastoral estate accounts for over 600 000km² (46%) of the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory Pastoral Land Act 1992 is the principal legislation for natural resource management on the pastoral estate, and is therefore one of the most critical pieces of legislation governing natural resources in the Northern Territory.

This fact sheet is a summary of WWF-Australia's (WWF) recommended changes to the legislation that it believes would result in improvements to the ecological sustainability of the pastoral estate, for the benefit of biodiversity, building resilience to climate change, and ultimately to the increased profitability to land managers. WWF considers that the recommendations outlined below are both affordable and workable within the Northern Territory's geographic context. The recommendations have been grouped under five broad themes.

"TSN News" is produced quarterly by WWF-Australia's Threatened Species Network, providing updates on threatened species projects and activities happening around Australia.

The focus in this report on Northern Australia is appropriate in an era where climate change is now accepted as a reality, but is leading some to advocate greater exploitation of the Australian tropical environment. This attention on Northern Australia is both an opportunity and a threat. Any move to further “develop” the north must be balanced by careful consideration of the natural balance of nature and how this may be disturbed by human actions.

The Australian Climate Group, comprised of eminent Australian climate scientists, was first convened by WWF-Australia and the Insurance Australia Group in 2003. It re-formed in 2007 to call on Government for urgent action to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change. The Group recommends that Australia stabilise national emissions by 2010. One of the Report's main findings is that there is increasing evidence that catastrophic climate change could occur and could take place in our lifetime.

Building Nature's Safety Net 2008 is the second comprehensive review of Australia's protected areas.

It determines whether the growth of Australia's land protected areas is on track to meet biodiversity protection targets adopted by Australian, State and Territory governments in 2005.