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> The Australian government plans to make an area about the size of Germany in the Southern Ocean a marine zone, strengthening protections around Macquarie Island for millions of penguins and seals.

> The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, announced that the government wants to triple the size of the Macquarie Island marine park, describing it as a globally significant contribution to marine conservation that would put 388,000 sq km under high protection.

> Plibersek said the expansion of the marine park would increase the amount of protected area in Australia's oceans to 48.2%. The announcement was welcomed by conservationists: "If approved it will provide a refuge to help the island's iconic species adapt to the changing climate,'" said Emily Grilly, the Antarctic conservation manager at WWF-Australia.

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As a German, I don't understand this Unit. Could you please convert it to Multiples of the Saarland, Fußballfelder or Bierkästen?

Love to see this stuff.

Let's do the Royal Penguin happy dance.

It's an area roughly 3.428 hours by 2.5 hours of 250km/h driving on the Autobahn.

Damn proud

As an Australian, I don't either. Generally we measure in metric, European Countries is a new unit for me as well. 🤷🏽‍♀️

They want to make the area 388000 km²

a standard sized Fußballfelder is 105m * 68m = 0,00714km²

388000km² /0,00741km² = 54.341.736,69 Fußballfelder groß

Seems like Multiples of Saarland would be a more appropriate Unit here.

That would be 388000/2570 = 150,97 Saarland

Thank you very much!

This decision would have been hilarious if done in 1939, Hitler would have been so pissed off

r/HalfaGiraffe

Protect the fishies

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Good. Some dude was responsible for nearly destroying the entire penguin and seal population. The dollop did a good episode called the horror show of Macquarie island

Normally Australia is pretty abysmal when it comes to (marine) environmental protection, so this is definitely great to see.

I thought the Australian Government only harasses YouTubers?

Mining Oligarchs announce plans to extract coal from park.

Oh cool, now I have to google the size of Germany when they could have just said it in the headline. Because Germany for scale makes sense, for some reason.

Now if Australia could stop polluting elsewhere, that'd be great.

Australia’s greenhouse pollution from coal higher per person than any other developed country, data shows Despite the growth of renewable energy, Australia’s per capita coal emissions of 4.04 tonnes a year is nearly four times the global average.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/20/australias-greenhouse-pollution-from-coal-higher-per-person-than-any-other-developed-country-data-shows

That was the former Federal Government the Liberal/National coalition who were voted out last year. Also state NSW Liberal party was involved with that. Assuming you’re referring to FriendlyJordies. The government in charge now is the Australian Labour Party and had nothing to do with it.

Okay, now the Clark and Dawe bit that is insanely overused would be funny.
But it's been ruined through overuse.

Don’t forget the effort they spend blocking UN torture inspectors.

Also für mich macht das Sinn.

For me, that makes sense.

Things might start getting better on that front now that the Liberals are finally out of power!

Ein Saarland ist somit 346’828.6 Fussballfelder gross. Das sind ziemlich viele Bierkästen!

As a JPost.com reporter, I don't understand this Unit. Could you please convert it to Corgis?

And people trying to enjoy a succulent Chinese meal.

wonder if the chinese and japanese fishing boats got the memo?

Labor's policy of allowing every person and their dog to open new coal and gas mines as long as they "carbon offset" is pretty much as bad as Liberal policy. Carbon offset schemes are turning out to be one of the biggest failures and scams of all time.

We're sorry. 🫣

Just need the older generation to stop voting back in the conservatives.

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Hell yes oz. More!

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I prefer my penguins to be a little more derpy.

Penguin Parkour

Penguin Shenanigans

Don't just blame the elderly, there are plenty of cooked cunts voting for Clive and Pauline and a whole cult of happy clappers voted for Scotty.

I choose to blame Murdock and the media, he's fucked our country for generations to come.

Of course it looks bad when you post an article from the previous governments term.

Australia’s largest coal-fired power station, Eraring, to close in 2025, seven years early

The 12 largest coal plants are scheduled for closure.

Coal exporting will continue and grow.

Coal power stations are being built in Asia at a fast rate.

Everything is connected unfortunately.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/australias-coal-exporters-made-windfall-profit-of-45bn-last-year-report-estimates

You are confusing the state of NSW with the Australian government.

China: So where exactly is this? Asking for a friend….

The difference between a conservative Coalition government and a Labor government.

Like that type of emu that went from discovered to extinct in 3 years

The only country I want to visit.

fatty mcfuckhead, had his knocked back.