Australian Marine Conservation Society
@marineconservation.org.au
Bringing the blue to Bluesky 🌊
We are Australia’s leading national charity dedicated solely to protecting our precious ocean wildlife.
🪸 marineconservation.org.au
IG: @marineconservation.au
TT: @australianmarinecons
We are Australia’s leading national charity dedicated solely to protecting our precious ocean wildlife.
🪸 marineconservation.org.au
IG: @marineconservation.au
TT: @australianmarinecons
Seen brilliant reusable packaging in Australia that deserves some recognition? Nominate it for the #UnpackitAwards now: unpackit.org.au 👈🏆⭐
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Seen brilliant reusable packaging in Australia that deserves some recognition? Nominate it for the #UnpackitAwards now: unpackit.org.au 👈🏆⭐
A 're-use only precinct' is also planned in the Sydney CBD by 2027. The NSW EPA's Plastics Plan 2.0 includes strong steps forward, especially on initiatives to increase reuse systems for takeaway cups. 🥤☕
Now the federal govt needs to step up & deliver its promised reform packaging legislation.
Now the federal govt needs to step up & deliver its promised reform packaging legislation.
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
A 're-use only precinct' is also planned in the Sydney CBD by 2027. The NSW EPA's Plastics Plan 2.0 includes strong steps forward, especially on initiatives to increase reuse systems for takeaway cups. 🥤☕
Now the federal govt needs to step up & deliver its promised reform packaging legislation.
Now the federal govt needs to step up & deliver its promised reform packaging legislation.
Have you seen an example of ridiculous overpackaging in Australia? Take a picture and nominate it in the #UnpackitAwards now 👉unpackit.org.au 👈
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Have you seen an example of ridiculous overpackaging in Australia? Take a picture and nominate it in the #UnpackitAwards now 👉unpackit.org.au 👈
Last year, we advocated for marine wildlife at a series of stakeholder engagement sessions that helped decide what would be included in this plan. We also encouraged supporters to have their say. The results were loud and clear: on average, 90% of people agreed with the NSW EPA's proposed actions.
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Last year, we advocated for marine wildlife at a series of stakeholder engagement sessions that helped decide what would be included in this plan. We also encouraged supporters to have their say. The results were loud and clear: on average, 90% of people agreed with the NSW EPA's proposed actions.
On World Fisheries day, we reflect on the path forward for our fisheries. What we know for sure is, the future of our ocean relies on sustainable fisheries. If we don’t fish for the future, we won’t be fishing in the future.
You can read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4rdae0E
You can read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4rdae0E
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
On World Fisheries day, we reflect on the path forward for our fisheries. What we know for sure is, the future of our ocean relies on sustainable fisheries. If we don’t fish for the future, we won’t be fishing in the future.
You can read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4rdae0E
You can read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4rdae0E
A historic step in the journey to a safe climate is on the table at the world’s biggest climate summit: a roadmap away from fossil fuels, the biggest cause of the climate crisis.
A fossil fuel roadmap that is just, equitable, funded and fair can protect the people and places we love.
#COP30
A fossil fuel roadmap that is just, equitable, funded and fair can protect the people and places we love.
#COP30
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
A historic step in the journey to a safe climate is on the table at the world’s biggest climate summit: a roadmap away from fossil fuels, the biggest cause of the climate crisis.
A fossil fuel roadmap that is just, equitable, funded and fair can protect the people and places we love.
#COP30
A fossil fuel roadmap that is just, equitable, funded and fair can protect the people and places we love.
#COP30
Hey you! 🐢🧐
Have you ever been fed up with a mountain of unnecessary packaging around a product? Or found reusable packaging so clever you wish every business used it?
Now’s your chance to take a picture of it and call it out. Nominate Australia’s best and worst packaging now: unpackit.org.au 👈
Have you ever been fed up with a mountain of unnecessary packaging around a product? Or found reusable packaging so clever you wish every business used it?
Now’s your chance to take a picture of it and call it out. Nominate Australia’s best and worst packaging now: unpackit.org.au 👈
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Hey you! 🐢🧐
Have you ever been fed up with a mountain of unnecessary packaging around a product? Or found reusable packaging so clever you wish every business used it?
Now’s your chance to take a picture of it and call it out. Nominate Australia’s best and worst packaging now: unpackit.org.au 👈
Have you ever been fed up with a mountain of unnecessary packaging around a product? Or found reusable packaging so clever you wish every business used it?
Now’s your chance to take a picture of it and call it out. Nominate Australia’s best and worst packaging now: unpackit.org.au 👈
Today, alongside Plastic Free Foundation and WWF-Australia, we launch ... the Unpackit Awards! 🏆⭐
Nominate Australia’s best and worst packaging now: unpackit.org.au 👈
Help encourage businesses, brands, and retailers to protect our environment from pollution by improving packaging. 🌏🏖️🌊
Nominate Australia’s best and worst packaging now: unpackit.org.au 👈
Help encourage businesses, brands, and retailers to protect our environment from pollution by improving packaging. 🌏🏖️🌊
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Today, alongside Plastic Free Foundation and WWF-Australia, we launch ... the Unpackit Awards! 🏆⭐
Nominate Australia’s best and worst packaging now: unpackit.org.au 👈
Help encourage businesses, brands, and retailers to protect our environment from pollution by improving packaging. 🌏🏖️🌊
Nominate Australia’s best and worst packaging now: unpackit.org.au 👈
Help encourage businesses, brands, and retailers to protect our environment from pollution by improving packaging. 🌏🏖️🌊
Be the voice for NSW marine life🌊🐟🦭🦞🐳
We’re screening the powerful film ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’ in NSW Parliament on 20th November. This is an opportunity to spark change, but only if Members of Parliament attend. Will yours?
If you're in NSW, add your name now: https://bit.ly/4hCCd5M 👈
We’re screening the powerful film ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’ in NSW Parliament on 20th November. This is an opportunity to spark change, but only if Members of Parliament attend. Will yours?
If you're in NSW, add your name now: https://bit.ly/4hCCd5M 👈
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Be the voice for NSW marine life🌊🐟🦭🦞🐳
We’re screening the powerful film ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’ in NSW Parliament on 20th November. This is an opportunity to spark change, but only if Members of Parliament attend. Will yours?
If you're in NSW, add your name now: https://bit.ly/4hCCd5M 👈
We’re screening the powerful film ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’ in NSW Parliament on 20th November. This is an opportunity to spark change, but only if Members of Parliament attend. Will yours?
If you're in NSW, add your name now: https://bit.ly/4hCCd5M 👈
The positive results show that govts can make a big difference when they take plastic pollution seriously. But there's much more work to do in stopping plastic from ending up as pollution on land and in our ocean.
Plastic still makes up most of the littered items, including food & drink packaging.
Plastic still makes up most of the littered items, including food & drink packaging.
November 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The positive results show that govts can make a big difference when they take plastic pollution seriously. But there's much more work to do in stopping plastic from ending up as pollution on land and in our ocean.
Plastic still makes up most of the littered items, including food & drink packaging.
Plastic still makes up most of the littered items, including food & drink packaging.
Without strong nature laws, extinction is guaranteed.
Labor promised to protect nature. It’s time to deliver:
▪ Strong rules for nature protection
▪ An independent referee
▪ End deforestation
▪ Stop climate destruction
Labor promised to protect nature. It’s time to deliver:
▪ Strong rules for nature protection
▪ An independent referee
▪ End deforestation
▪ Stop climate destruction
October 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Without strong nature laws, extinction is guaranteed.
Labor promised to protect nature. It’s time to deliver:
▪ Strong rules for nature protection
▪ An independent referee
▪ End deforestation
▪ Stop climate destruction
Labor promised to protect nature. It’s time to deliver:
▪ Strong rules for nature protection
▪ An independent referee
▪ End deforestation
▪ Stop climate destruction
The Ghost Net Initiative was set up in 2021 to help tackle the thousands of ghost nets and hundreds of tonnes of plastic pollution in northern Australia. Its funding ended in June this year. The Australian Government must reinstate full funding for the Ghost Nets Initiative.
📷 Sea Shepherd Aus
📷 Sea Shepherd Aus
October 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The Ghost Net Initiative was set up in 2021 to help tackle the thousands of ghost nets and hundreds of tonnes of plastic pollution in northern Australia. Its funding ended in June this year. The Australian Government must reinstate full funding for the Ghost Nets Initiative.
📷 Sea Shepherd Aus
📷 Sea Shepherd Aus
Short-tailed shearwaters, aka muttonbirds, nest on small rocky islands in the Bass Strait, north of Tasmania. The Cape Barren Island Aboriginal Association told ABC News they found plastic in almost every bird they caught last season.
✍️Petition for a Global Plastics Treaty: https://bit.ly/3Gb3xK0
✍️Petition for a Global Plastics Treaty: https://bit.ly/3Gb3xK0
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Short-tailed shearwaters, aka muttonbirds, nest on small rocky islands in the Bass Strait, north of Tasmania. The Cape Barren Island Aboriginal Association told ABC News they found plastic in almost every bird they caught last season.
✍️Petition for a Global Plastics Treaty: https://bit.ly/3Gb3xK0
✍️Petition for a Global Plastics Treaty: https://bit.ly/3Gb3xK0
Happy World Octopus Day! 🐙
📸 Blue-ringed octopus: Jayne Jenkins / Ocean Image Bank
📸 Blue-ringed octopus: Jayne Jenkins / Ocean Image Bank
October 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy World Octopus Day! 🐙
📸 Blue-ringed octopus: Jayne Jenkins / Ocean Image Bank
📸 Blue-ringed octopus: Jayne Jenkins / Ocean Image Bank
In September 2024, WA banned non-compostable single-use plastic produce bags for loose fresh fruit and veg. Starting this week, the ban extends to include non-compostable single-use plastic bags for loose dry goods and confectionery.
October 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
In September 2024, WA banned non-compostable single-use plastic produce bags for loose fresh fruit and veg. Starting this week, the ban extends to include non-compostable single-use plastic bags for loose dry goods and confectionery.
Vale, Dr Jane Goodall, 1934-2025.
May we continue her legacy of hope, the power of collective action, and speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves 💙
May we continue her legacy of hope, the power of collective action, and speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves 💙
October 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Vale, Dr Jane Goodall, 1934-2025.
May we continue her legacy of hope, the power of collective action, and speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves 💙
May we continue her legacy of hope, the power of collective action, and speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves 💙
The same coral species suffering from bleaching and mortality on the Great Barrier Reef are being harvested for the global aquarium trade.
Add your name to protect wild corals and support the rapid transition of the Qld Coral Fishery to aquaculture.
👉 amcs.org.au/endcoralharvesting
Add your name to protect wild corals and support the rapid transition of the Qld Coral Fishery to aquaculture.
👉 amcs.org.au/endcoralharvesting
September 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The same coral species suffering from bleaching and mortality on the Great Barrier Reef are being harvested for the global aquarium trade.
Add your name to protect wild corals and support the rapid transition of the Qld Coral Fishery to aquaculture.
👉 amcs.org.au/endcoralharvesting
Add your name to protect wild corals and support the rapid transition of the Qld Coral Fishery to aquaculture.
👉 amcs.org.au/endcoralharvesting
🌊 Today, our Plastics & Packaging Program Manager Tara Jones spoke at an ACCC conference about a new soft plastics recycling scheme.
If this program goes ahead, it cannot become a distraction from supermarkets & other big businesses doing what really matters: reducing single-use plastic packaging.
If this program goes ahead, it cannot become a distraction from supermarkets & other big businesses doing what really matters: reducing single-use plastic packaging.
September 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🌊 Today, our Plastics & Packaging Program Manager Tara Jones spoke at an ACCC conference about a new soft plastics recycling scheme.
If this program goes ahead, it cannot become a distraction from supermarkets & other big businesses doing what really matters: reducing single-use plastic packaging.
If this program goes ahead, it cannot become a distraction from supermarkets & other big businesses doing what really matters: reducing single-use plastic packaging.
Millions of Australians will be impacted by rising sea levels, marine heatwaves will skyrocket & our reefs will face some of the worst impacts.
Today's National Climate Risk Assessment report paints a confronting picture of the escalating danger climate change poses to our ocean & coastlines.
Today's National Climate Risk Assessment report paints a confronting picture of the escalating danger climate change poses to our ocean & coastlines.
September 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Millions of Australians will be impacted by rising sea levels, marine heatwaves will skyrocket & our reefs will face some of the worst impacts.
Today's National Climate Risk Assessment report paints a confronting picture of the escalating danger climate change poses to our ocean & coastlines.
Today's National Climate Risk Assessment report paints a confronting picture of the escalating danger climate change poses to our ocean & coastlines.
Last year, Australia created 3.2 million tonnes of plastic WASTE. 39% was from packaging, which big corporations often make it impossible to avoid.
Tell the big supermarkets to cut unnecessary plastic: https://bit.ly/4gqIjEI
📷 Plastic pollution on a remote NT beach. Photo by Sea Shepherd Aus.
Tell the big supermarkets to cut unnecessary plastic: https://bit.ly/4gqIjEI
📷 Plastic pollution on a remote NT beach. Photo by Sea Shepherd Aus.
September 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Last year, Australia created 3.2 million tonnes of plastic WASTE. 39% was from packaging, which big corporations often make it impossible to avoid.
Tell the big supermarkets to cut unnecessary plastic: https://bit.ly/4gqIjEI
📷 Plastic pollution on a remote NT beach. Photo by Sea Shepherd Aus.
Tell the big supermarkets to cut unnecessary plastic: https://bit.ly/4gqIjEI
📷 Plastic pollution on a remote NT beach. Photo by Sea Shepherd Aus.
That’s about 146kg of plastic per Aussie 🥤🗑️🤯
The latest data on plastic flows & fates was recently released by the Aus Govt. It shows Australia used 4 million tonnes of plastic in the 2023-24 financial year. Recovery rates remain very low at 14%.
📷 Plastic from remote NT beach. Sea Shepherd Aus.
The latest data on plastic flows & fates was recently released by the Aus Govt. It shows Australia used 4 million tonnes of plastic in the 2023-24 financial year. Recovery rates remain very low at 14%.
📷 Plastic from remote NT beach. Sea Shepherd Aus.
September 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
That’s about 146kg of plastic per Aussie 🥤🗑️🤯
The latest data on plastic flows & fates was recently released by the Aus Govt. It shows Australia used 4 million tonnes of plastic in the 2023-24 financial year. Recovery rates remain very low at 14%.
📷 Plastic from remote NT beach. Sea Shepherd Aus.
The latest data on plastic flows & fates was recently released by the Aus Govt. It shows Australia used 4 million tonnes of plastic in the 2023-24 financial year. Recovery rates remain very low at 14%.
📷 Plastic from remote NT beach. Sea Shepherd Aus.
Starting today, more single-use plastic items will be banned in South Australia, including plastic soy sauce containers that are less than 30ml and have a lid, cap, or stopper. ❌
🏖️ Bans on problematic single-use plastic items like these help protect marine wildlife from commonly littered items.
🏖️ Bans on problematic single-use plastic items like these help protect marine wildlife from commonly littered items.
August 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Starting today, more single-use plastic items will be banned in South Australia, including plastic soy sauce containers that are less than 30ml and have a lid, cap, or stopper. ❌
🏖️ Bans on problematic single-use plastic items like these help protect marine wildlife from commonly littered items.
🏖️ Bans on problematic single-use plastic items like these help protect marine wildlife from commonly littered items.
The ongoing South Australian algal bloom crisis continues to devastate marine life and local communities.
The bloom has been labelled ‘one of the worst in the world’ by US expert, Dr Donald Anderson, who has been brought in by the SA Government to help advise on the growing crisis.
The bloom has been labelled ‘one of the worst in the world’ by US expert, Dr Donald Anderson, who has been brought in by the SA Government to help advise on the growing crisis.
August 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The ongoing South Australian algal bloom crisis continues to devastate marine life and local communities.
The bloom has been labelled ‘one of the worst in the world’ by US expert, Dr Donald Anderson, who has been brought in by the SA Government to help advise on the growing crisis.
The bloom has been labelled ‘one of the worst in the world’ by US expert, Dr Donald Anderson, who has been brought in by the SA Government to help advise on the growing crisis.
The QLD Govt committed to following peer-reviewed evidence, but instead invested $88M to roll out lethal drumlines and shark nets, despite overwhelming evidence that they do not reduce the risk of shark bites
In the same week, one of Australia’s leading experts resigned from the shark working group
In the same week, one of Australia’s leading experts resigned from the shark working group
June 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The QLD Govt committed to following peer-reviewed evidence, but instead invested $88M to roll out lethal drumlines and shark nets, despite overwhelming evidence that they do not reduce the risk of shark bites
In the same week, one of Australia’s leading experts resigned from the shark working group
In the same week, one of Australia’s leading experts resigned from the shark working group
Experts from the Australian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (ACOWE) and the @biodiversitycouncil (BC), in collaboration with AMCS, have launched a new report calling for smarter offshore wind planning that balances renewable energy with marine protection, community confidence and cultural heritage.
May 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Experts from the Australian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (ACOWE) and the @biodiversitycouncil (BC), in collaboration with AMCS, have launched a new report calling for smarter offshore wind planning that balances renewable energy with marine protection, community confidence and cultural heritage.