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グレートバリアリーフのすぐ外側で、巨大な炭層ガス開発が認可された事を受け世界遺産を管轄するユネスコが「重大な懸念」を表明し視察団が急遽来豪します。（政府は開発を認可した事すらユネスコに報告していなかった）
使節団に「グレートバリアリーフを救おう」という強いメッセージを送るため、3月11日の日曜日にケアンズの中心部にて大規模なコミュニテイアクションが行なわれます。グレートバリアリーフの公な等級が「危機」とされればオーストラリア政府に大きな恥をかかせ、また本件の世界的な認知を得る事が出来ます。
グレートバリアリーフは既に過剰な漁業と船舶の往来、気候変動、公害で深刻な影響を受けています。その上で今回認可された炭層ガスの大規模開発となれば、既に衰弱は誰もが認めるグレートバリアリーフの存亡に関わる事態になります。
過剰な開発は止めねばなりません。3月11日にユネスコがケアンズに入ります。市民がどれほど心配しているか伝えなければなりません。立ち上がり、協力して下さい。
日時: Sunday March 11th, 11am.
場所: On the lawn between the Esplanade Lagoon and the Yacht Club/Salthouse. For map see here.
内容: A fun day with friends and family where we will join together and form the message ‘Save Our Reef’.
詳細: https://www.getup.org.au/cairns-event-rsvp
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URGENT ACTION – ‘Save Our Reef’
Sunday 11th March: 11am
On the lawn between the Esplanade Lagoon and the Yacht Club/Salthouse. For map see here.
On Sunday a team from UNESCO will be arriving in Cairns as part of their investigation into threats to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. This is the last opportunity to ensure they leave Australia with one clear message – Australians are standing up for the reef and want to see urgent action to protect it.
UNESCO (The United Nations body charged with designating and protecting World Heritage sites) has taken this extraordinary step of coming to Australia to investigate for themselves, as the Australian Government didn’t even tell them that they’d approved the development of massive coal seam gas and coal export facilities on the doorstep to the Reef. UNESCO now has the opportunity to declare the Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’, which would be a huge blow to the mining industry’s expansion around Gladstone and deeply embarrassing for the Australian government.
UNESCO are meeting with scientists, environment groups, state government, fishing and tourism industry representatives, local councils and mining companies, but one group’s missing: the Australian community.Let’s send them a message they’ll remember! If enough of us get together on Sunday we can create a massive message that will be seen from the sky which says ‘Save Our Reef’. It’s part of UNESCO’s mission to take the community’s views into account, so if we show up in force, it will push UNESCO to officially list the reef as “under threat,” which, in turn, will greatly embarrass the Federal Government, draw welcome media attention to the destruction of the reef, and strengthen our case for the Government to stop dredging and industrial developments around the reef until a strategic plan is put in place that protects the reef.
We need to show them that Australians care deeply about the reef, and that we are willing to stand up for it. Can you come along with your friends and family and join with your community in standing up for the Great Barrier Reef? RSVP for this Sunday’s community action here: https://www.getup.org.au/cairns-community-action
WHEN: Sunday March 11th, 11am.
WHERE: On the lawn between the Esplanade Lagoon and the Yacht Club/Salthouse. For map see here.
WHAT: A fun day with friends and family where we will join together and form the message ‘Save Our Reef’.
RSVP: https://www.getup.org.au/cairns-event-rsvp
The fragile ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef reef is already under pressure from climate change, overfishing, pollution and shipping traffic. Now these huge coal seam gas and mining industry export developments along the coast, some within the World Heritage Area, threaten the Reef’s very existence.
This overdevelopment and destruction has got to stop. We can’t all meet with UNESCO – but we can stand up for the Great Barrier Reef. This Sunday UNESCO arrives in Cairns. Can you be part of a community action, along with CAFNEC (Cairns and Far North Environment Centre), GetUp, The Wilderness Society and Greenpeace to send a clear message to UNESCO that Australians want to save the reef?