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- Endangered species
- Habitat fragmentation
- Local bushland degradation
- Reserves and conservation areas
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- Collaborate with a local 'friends of' group.
- Participate in bushland care days
Plant local/endemic vegetation in your church or garden to provide habitat for local birds and animals.
- Stick to paths wherever possible
- Keep pets under control
- Respect natural areas
- Learn about your local biodiversity
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- Loss of good quality rural land by urban expansion.
- Salinity
- mineral resources
- deforestation
- Acid sulphate soils
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- Contact the environment department in your state or local area and get information relevant to the issues in your state.
- make links with local ladcare and catchment groups and join in some of their activites as a parish.
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- Urban pollution
- Indoor air quality
- Ozone depletion
- Greenhouse effect & Global warming
- Industrial Pollution
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- Transport choices
- minimize energy use
- invest in renewable energy sources
- recycling
- Product stewardship
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- Over use of a depleting resource
- Groundwater pollution
- River pollution
- Catchment management
- urban water use/ availability
- Australian topography & water use
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- Wise/efficient use of water
- Waterwise gardens
- household usage
- greywater reuse
- rainwater collection
- reduce waste (landfill damages groundwater)
- drains & sink (avoid pollutants)
- litter/cleanup
- wise fertiliser & pesticide use
- catchment management
- conservation
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- Inefficient energy consumption
- Over use of energy sources
- Misconception of renewable energy options
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- Conduct an energy audit of your parish and look for ways to be more energy efficient
- Install energy efficient light globes
- put up signs reminding people to turn off the lights when not in use.
- Learn about low cost solar energy panels and how to install them
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- Ocean pollution (litter, industrial waste, ocean outfall)
- Degradation of coastal & marine environments
- Management of fishery resources/overfishing
- Coastal development
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- avoid plastic bag use & disposal
- help clean up coastal areas
- participate in revegetation of dune systems to reduce erosion
- Stick to paths
- purchase products which are low in pollutants & packaging
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- Landfill sites running out
- pollution from landfill (groundwater, litter etc)
- increasing costs of waste disposal
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- compost/vermicompost home and/or parish organic waste
- recycle paper, aluminium, plastic, glass, cork... investigate what can be recycled in your area.
- encourage re-use of materials
- purchase products with low or no packaging
- purchase recycled products - close the loop...
- look for eco-labelled products
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- Understanding one anothers views and problems.
- Sharing resources eg. biosolids from sewage as a fertiliser.
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- form a parish link with/between an urban and a rural parish
- encourage links such as urban parishes growing trees & plants for rural revegetation projects
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- Loss of natural heritage
- loss of indigenous heritage
- increasing disconnectedness of Australians to their cultural roots
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- Make contact with your local or state indigenous heritage unit
- Join in some of the national heritage trust events
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