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Sunset over the bay
Marine
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Marine Brief #2

The waters surrounding Bruny Island represent one of Australia’s most intricate and productive marine interfaces—a meeting point of the East Australian Current, the Southern Ocean, and the tannin-rich outflow of

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Albatross - Rod Hartvigson
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Aquablog April 26

The problems facing southern Tasmania’s salmon farming industry have intensified, focusing on antibiotic contamination, political interference in environmental protection, and a deepening public mistrust. The issues are particularly acute around

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Bird tour with Cat Davidson
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Our 8th Bruny Bird Festival joy

What a wonderful, successful weekend! How to thank everyone involved in the fantastic 2026 Bird Festival? Held in perfect weather, it went off smoothly, largely due to the untiring coordinator,

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Neck heights
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Beach retreat on the Neck

Matt Gunn has, since 2017, tracked erosion on the southern end of The Neck. This very valuable resource is publicly available as Dismal Tides – his on-line data repository which

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TAMP flyers

We feature these flyers from TAMP that highlight some impacts of industrial fish farming:

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Local hero

Year 11 student Alice Evans, as part of her International Baccalaureate Diploma decided to grow seedlings and sell them at our local Lunawanna market last week. Not only did people

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