Thursday, 22 February 2007 (451 reads) Funding generated by the ZooX™ Fund will be utilised to create an unprecedented snapshot of the risks and responses to pressures affecting the Great Barrier Reef. |
Thursday, 22 February 2007 (347 reads) A new national campaign – the ZooX™ Fund – was launched today to instigate scientific research projects aimed at protecting the Great Barrier Reef from the ravages of climate change. The ZooX™ Fund is an initiative of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF), an independent organisation which brings together the financial strength of Australia’s business community to assist eminent marine scientists find ways of preserving Australia’s greatest natural wonder. |
Thursday, 22 February 2007 (290 reads) A little understood micro-organism is all that stands between a healthy and colourful coral reef ecosystem and a white, virtually lifeless reef. |
Thursday, 22 February 2007 (489 reads) KERRY O'BRIEN: Some of Australia's most respected business leaders are throwing their weight behind a campaign to save the Great Barrier Reef from the ravages of climate change. They've launched a new fund called zoox, aimed at raising money for new practical research into ways of protecting the reef from coral bleaching. The fund illustrates how far the business community has moved over the recent past on climate change. Peter McCutcheon reports. |
Thursday, 15 February 2007 (268 reads) Three of Australia's top business leaders have joined to save Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. |
Thursday, 15 February 2007 (253 reads) Three of Australia's top business leaders have joined the fight to save Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. |
Thursday, 15 February 2007 (219 reads) Three of the nation's top business leasers have joined the fight to save the Great Barrier Reef. |
Thursday, 15 February 2007 (230 reads) Three of Australia's top business leaders have joined the fight to save Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. |
Wednesday, 7 February 2007 (241 reads) Climate change presents the most significant and immediate threat to the Great Barrier Reef, according to the organisation charged with fundraising for targeted scientific research aimed at preserving it. |
Tuesday, 23 January 2007 (254 reads) FORMER fossil fuel mogul John Schubert says the nation has reached a "tipping point" on climate change, with overwhelming public acceptance of the problem making it impossible for business and government toignore it any longer. |
Thursday, 19 October 2006 (265 reads) Researchers studying the impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef will expand their important work after securing additional funding from the Australian Research Council. |
Wednesday, 2 August 2006 (253 reads) JOHN Schubert, chairman of the Commonwealth Bank and a former head of the Business Council of Australia, is a former mining executive, so it is no surprise that he uses mining metaphors. |
Monday, 17 July 2006 (313 reads) The Commonwealth Bank has announced a three-year partnership with the Great Barrier Reef Research Foundation which will enable over 375 marine science students to study the Reef’s coral ecosystems with the aim to familiarise and skill participants for future marine protection and conservation initiatives. |
Monday, 7 November 2005 (255 reads) Great Barrier Reef research received a $1 million injection today with the announcement of Future Reef - a four-year partnership between Comalco (part of the Rio Tinto Aluminium Group) and the Great Barrier Reef Research Foundation. |