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Should Australia be subsidising child slavery in palm oil plantations?

Don’t sacrifice Australia’s wildlife and natural wonders to Garnaut pessimism

Garrett must take brake off species and habitat protection

Garrett missed opportunity to protect Paroo River

Straws drawn on the fate of Murray Darling wetlands

Supercat import banned

Delivering on the promise of a country well cared for

Garrett uses environment laws to protect endangered cassowary

Government ignores the rights of consumers to shun factory farming horrors

G8 leaders affirm importance of biodiversity conservation

Will Verity Firth allow another season of animal cruelty?

Rudd should ask Garrett to protect Coorong wetlands

HSI thanks the Australian Democrats for service to the environment and animal welfare

Scientists find whales innocent of global decline in fisheries

U.S. House Passes Resolution Protecting Whales

HSI on the ground at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission

HSI seeks further legislative protection for the Coorong wetlands

Supercat import disastrous for native species

National Heritage - good news and bad news

HSI tells Garrett to save money and protect biodiversity

Queensland ends flying fox cruelty, NSW allows it to continue

No bonus in budget for biodiversity

Garrett uses Environment laws to protect endangered fish and wetlands

Australian Governments Urged to Stop Senseless Shark Slaughter

Support for forest protection efforts in PNG but Australia must act closer to home

Welcome investment in Australia’s National Reserve System

Talks underway to progress Bali Mandate

Baby seal slaughter to start tomorrow

275,000 seals to die after hunt begins March 28

Forest carbon partnership with PNG paves the way for replicate action

HSUS/HSI applauds new regulations on elephant management in South Africa, warns agains culling

HSI negotiates improvements to Australia’s largest fishery

Peter Garrett welcomes negotiations with HSI over Australia's largest fishery

Barbaric grey seal massacre caught on film

Taronga elephant too young to breed

Government withholds evidence for international court case

Court orders delivered to whalers in Tokyo

Australian Federal Court orders stop to Japanese whale hunt

Whale case judgement tomorrow

HSI commends federal Environment Department for tackling nature's housing crisis in Sydney

Shark net fallacy

HSI welcomes Government action over whaling

Companies linked to Japanese whaling; conservationists call for action

US Congress lobbies Bush to sanction Japan over whales

Garrett maintains pressure on NSW over endangered shark

Green groups call on Rudd government to move on whales protection

Only One Earth, for People and Wildlife

Huge haul of illegal wildlife products in Bali

United Nations Global 500 Laureates urge PM on climate and forests

Rudd must act immediately on whales

HSI demands U.S. sanctions as Japanese whalers set sail. Election to decide how tough Australia gets with Japan

Election saves woodland

Which Party will save Australia’s 20 critically endangered species?

ALP to enlist the military in fight against whaling

Failure to Protect Grey Nurse Shark Threatens Commercial Fishing Industry

Indonesian Orangutan initiative praised, but more conservation efforts needed in S.E Asia

Wipe debt, save carbon

Green fuel a green furphy - HSI calls for end to palm oil subsidies

Nature’s housing crisis

A welcome rescue plan for Great Barrier Reef

Where is the biodiversity conservation policy?

Ten thousand albatross die for sashimi

Climate targets must be more ambitious to save coral reefs

Government Confirms Opposition to Whale Case

Government puts palm oil on the agenda at UN climate talks

Business as usual for government’s illegal logging policy

The alternative state of Australia's environment

Wetland recognition a good step towards water security

Forests vital as US climate change talks get underway

Government has second chance to support HSI’s legal case against Japanese whalers

Long awaited court hearing against Japanese whalers takes place tomorrow

Threatened Marine Species Still on the Menu

Canadian seal hunt condemned by US House of Representatives

World authority on biodiversity and climate change to visit Australia

Jane Goodall Institute and HSI applaud Sierra Leone for taking action to protect chimpanzees

Japan killed 263 pregnant whales in Antarctic waters - HSI back in the Federal Court

European parliament bans the import of cat and dog fur

Elephants given reprieve

Protection sought for Western Australia’s pristine woodlands

World governments reject tiger farming and trade; a victory for wild tigers, coalition says

Australia jeopardises global shark conservation in political deal

Humane Society International applauds a UN decision to protect bobcats

Avoided deforestation key to early success in curbing greenhouse gas emissions

Australia secures resounding win for whales at U.N. treaty meeting

Australia’s natural heritage held hostage by farmers

E.U. ignores science, supports leopard trophy export quotas

U.N. treaty denies protection to critically endangered black rhinoceros

HSI condemns decision by U.N. body to allow ivory trade to Japan

Japan to kill over 900 whales in Australian Whale Sanctuary this Christmas

CITES Standing Committee approves one-off sale of elephant ivory

A good year for whales at IWC

International Whaling Commission Reconfirms Authority over Whale Conservation

HSI CITES press briefing

Wrangling over whaling on Day 3 of IWC

Japan’s Whaling Loses Support from Commercial Fisheries Companies

Alaska Whaling Quota OK'd; Japan Maneuvers for Advantage

Whale protection majority marks opening of IWC

International whale talks begin in Alaska

Australia weak over international protection for critically endangered species

Protection for Australia's dingoes

Support for Labor's 'Less Talk - More Action' approach

Finally, a victory for grey nurse sharks

Protection for endangered community in NSW wheatbelt

Better management, not hunt, is required to deal with Frazer Island dingos

Strongest climate change laws required

HSI congratulates Government on pioneering forest fund

Thousands of baby seals already dead as seal hunters gear up for annual hunt

Seal death scandal

Seaweek, but not many fish in the sea

Too many fishers - not enough sharks

No escape from court for whalers

Fickle justice for whales in Southern Ocean

Protecting wild rivers - the Paroo River should be first

HSI success in court today

Whale case proceeds despite Japanese government intransigence

Severe warning for our fishing future

Endangered angels snared by deadly shark nets

Hands off Great White Shark

Heritage status for Australia's pristine natural wonders

Test of integrity for government

Senate debates destruction of Australia's environmental law

Endangered shark hunted as ban overturned

HSI supports Asia Pacific biodiversity hotspots conservation

Dingo considered for Heritage Listing - but Commonwealth may duck responsibility

CO₂ emitting fires in SE Asia ignored at UN climate talks

First ever commercial marine fish protected under environment laws

Government set to knee-cap environment protection laws

Public vigilance needed for elephant's sake

Australia now leads endangered tuna exploitation

Extinction nears as government inactivity threatens commercial fish

HSI calls for sanctions against Iceland for defying global community and resuming commercial whale hunts

Amendments to Australia's environment laws weaken and politicise threatened species protection

Amendments to Australia's environment laws weaken and politicise threatened species protection

Campbell takes public right to protect wildlife from exploitation back to the 1970s

Conservationists in crisis talks over shark in peril

Heritage protection for Australia's last wild rivers

Australia urged to follow Kenyan lead and not send animals to deadly Thai Zoo

PM called on to save thousands of albatross

Heritage protection given to Tasmania's deep sea mountain ranges

US administration called on in fight to save antarctic wildlife from Spanish poachers

HSI has major success closing down markets for Canadian fur seal

HSI pays tribute to Steve Irwin

Conservationists call for firearm ban on fishing boats after seal shootings

HSI's efforts to stop Thai elephant import backed up by "60 Minutes"

NSW to protect popular dining fish from 'very high risk of extinction'

Japanese tuna scandal is stark warning for whales and should cause rethink on tuna protection

New 'Humane Choice' label aimed at improving the lives of farm animals and building consumer confidence

Elephants bid goodbye to their homeland forever

New evidence reveals atrocities of 2005/6 Antarctic Whale Hunt

Federal Court gives HSI the go ahead to due Japanese Whalers

Humane Society International sums up the 58th IWC meeting

Vote on "St Kitts" Declaration inflames International Whaling Commission

HSI heads to International Whaling Commission