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Imogen Zethoven
Imogen Zethoven AO has been an environmental advocate for more than 30 years. She is director of Blue Ocean Consulting and director of strategy at the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
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IMOGEN ZETHOVEN. The coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef continues.
As the novel coronavirus engulfs the world’s attention, the Great Barrier Reef is still suffering from coral bleaching and the government is pursuing a novel approach to its protection, without confronting the main threat…. Continue reading »
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IMOGEN ZETHOVEN. After the bushfires comes the bleaching
After a summer of intense heat, drought, bushfires, hailstones and floods, we now have another climate-change driven disaster emerging…. Continue reading »
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IMOGEN ZETHOVEN. Judgement Day for the Great Barrier Reef is Looming
Recently I was talking to a political insider in Canberra who told me he’d heard on numerous occasions at dinner parties that tragically the Great Barrier Reef is dead…. Continue reading »
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IMOGEN ZETHOVEN. The Tourism Industry Calls for Climate Action
It’s not hard to find bad news about the Great Barrier Reef but amongst the grim reports, there are signs of hope. First the bad news: The Australian Institute of Marine Science recently released its annual findings on the state of the Great Barrier Reef. Hard coral cover has shown a steep decline throughout the… Continue reading »
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IMOGEN ZETHOVEN. Outsourcing Reef Protection.
The outsourcing of nearly half a billion dollars of taxpayer funds to an independent Foundation to protect the Great Barrier Reef is unusual by any measure…. Continue reading »
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IMOGEN ZETHOVEN. Rescuing the Reef … again.
There must be a federal election coming as the government has announced a rescue package for the Great Barrier Reef. Like a damsel (fish) in distress, the Reef has experienced many rescue packages in the past. As early as the mid-1990’s, the federal government introduced the Sugar Coast Environment Rescue Package which aimed to preserve… Continue reading »
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IMOGEN ZETHOVEN. Trashing our Global Ocean Leadership.
Australia was once a global leader in marine protection. Today, we have fallen spectacularly from grace. The Commonwealth marine park plans tabled recently in federal Parliament represent a triumph for the oil, gas and fishing industries and a massive backward step for our threatened oceans…. Continue reading »
