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GNA Newsletter - Issue 4, 2010

2012-01-24

Download Newsletter 4 . Past the link below into a new internet browser window to view the newsletter.

http://email.agentcommunicate.com/t/ViewEmail/r/C462C585BBB4C164...   More >
 

GNA Memo - Hawaii Summary 2011

2012-01-24

GhostNets Australia (GNA) recently returned from the 5th International Marine Debris Conference (5IMDC) - in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
For a review of the conference and to find out what we took away with us copy and paste the link below into a new browser.

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2010 GNA Annual Report

2012-01-10

Click on the pdf attached to download a copy of the 2010 GNA Annual Report....   More >
 

Training Rangers to Monitor and Remove Derelict Fishing Nets

2011-11-15

On pages 3 and 4 of the MPA news, Scott Morrison discusses MPA's, IPA's and Ranger use of cyber tracker technology to record valuable information on ghost nets and marine debris....   More >
 

Latest Newsletter - Issue 5, 2011

2011-11-10

Read about the good work of GNA, the rangers and the art during 2011 - follow the link below

http://email.agentcommunicate.com/t/r-9F01BBB38341D0BD ...   More >
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Inaugural meeting of the GNA Steering Committee

2011-10-26

Last week seven of the nine regional representatives came together in Cairns to discuss the business of ghost nets. This was the first meeting of the new Steering Committee formed after the Back to the Future Summit held in Karumba 2010, where it was decided that the program is getting too large to...   More >
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A Case for Recyling on the Cape

2011-10-19

The attached PDF discusses the prevalence of plastic waste within the marine debris that rangers are recovering from the shores. An argument is put forward that now is a great time to develope a programme for recycling on the cape....   More >
 

Ghost Nets in the Kimberley

2011-08-24

KIMBERLEY COASTLINE AND MARINE LIFE NOT SO PRISTINE

Indigenous Rangers have found and destroyed more than 250kg of ocean debris harmful to vulnerable marine species, during a week-long survey of the north Kimberley coast.

The team of local Aboriginal rangers joined Ghos...   More >
 

10m Crocodile spotted at CIAF

2011-08-22

GhostNets Australia has been a regular presence at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, but this year’s statement has eclipsed all the others in terms of vision and outcome.

Inspired by the theme of the 2011 CIAF, GhostNets Artists Cecile Willliams and WA Puppetry Artist Karen Hethey join...   More >
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2004-2009 GNA Summary Report

2011-07-25

GNA have pulled together all of the ghost nets data collected by rangers between 2004 and 2009. The resulting summary report highlights the serious ghost net problem facing north Australia's coastline as well as the hard work that rangers have been doing to combat it....   More >