Australian Marine Conservation Society

Let's get into it.

So this is from the Australian Marine Conservation Society.

And it basically says that cases of bird flu have now been confirmed in the Australian sea lion on Kangaroo Island, which is home to the second largest Australian sea lion colony.

So these are an endangered species found nowhere else in the world.

Unfortunately, the unusual shape of a hammer's head also makes these sharks quite vulnerable around gill or fishing nets.

They become entangled and cannot free themselves and are often intentionally caught in these nets around the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian Marine Conservation Society reports.

So the question on everybody's mind is, what can we do to help protect hammerhead sharks? A comprehensive list by the Pew Charitable Trust documented places like Palau, Samoa, French Polynesia, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, and 12 others as designated shark sanctuaries as of 2016.

This means that the harvesting, targeting, and retention of sharks is strictly prohibited in these locations.

Their advocacy helped protect the habitat for these Australian sea lions, eastern ospreys, and white-bellied sea eagles as well.

They have also worked with the Australian Marine Conservation Society to protect the colonies from proposed sea cage aquaculture development.

So that's, like, truly the Lord's work.

Yeah.

Independent Member of Parliament Kate Cheney highlighted economic modeling showing that mandatory recycling standards would add as little as 20 cents to a standard weekly grocery bill.

Campaigners from the Australian Marine Conservation Society pointed out that plastic pollution continues to devastate marine life, while the burden of waste management is being dumped back on households rather than the corporations producing the plastic in the first place.

The fallout is equally severe for Australia's circular economy and domestic recycling sector.

Industry leaders warn that without clear, enforceable national rules, investments in local recycling infrastructure are rapidly crumbling.

And when dugong get caught in these nets, then they drown because they just can't come up for air.

Yeah, so the Australian Marine Conservation Society says the decline is alarming and one of the responses should be more bans and stricter controls on gillnet fishing, which is hard to argue with.

It certainly sounds like that that's something that's needed.

Meanwhile, in South Australia's Upper Spencer Gulf, the number of giant cuttlefish that have come to the Gulf to spawn has absolutely crashed with state government surveys finding the population has dropped to less than 2,000.