Winemakers trying to save Reef's turtles

Winemakers trying to save Reef's turtles
By admin


Wine producers Banrock Station know a good vintage as well as a good causes, and have now added another to their "bin".

The winemakers have teamed up with Australia's World Wildlife Fund in a bid to save the Great Barrier Reef and its green turtle population.

The Banrock Station Environmental Trust will give about $750,000 to a four-year program investigating key pollutants in rivers, the Great Barrier Reef and green turtles themselves.

The reef's turtles are now vulnerable to extinction.

"(It's) an effort to understand the threats to one of the most iconic Australian ecosystems and its native marine wildlife," trust member Dr Christophe Tourenq said.

The reef has lost almost half of its coral since 1985, due largely to pollution, WWF-Australia spokesman Darren Grover said.

It's not the first time the winemakers have supported conservation.

Through the trust, they've donated about $5 million to more than 100 conservation projects across the world.

The partnership comes in time for Friday's International World Turtle Day.

Latest News

  • Partner Content

My journey: Before becoming a travel agent I was… a palliative care nurse 

Australind Travel & Cruise, Travellers Choice member Saibra Twigg reveals her life as paediatric nurse then to palliative care before a career leap to travel agent. How did you become a palliative care nurse?  ST I went straight from school in nursing and initially specialised in paediatrics, working at Perth’s Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. […]

Partner Content

by Travel Weekly

Travel Weekly
  • Destinations
  • News

APT Launches 2025 Asia Adventures

APT has launched its Asia Adventures for 2025, including new luxury holidays in India, Sri Lanka and Japan. Five new tours lead guests to the highlights of India, including a seven-night cruise along the rarely travelled Lower Ganges aboard the Ganges Voyager. Further south, Sri Lanka’s greatest destinations are revealed on a new 15-day Land […]

  • Cruise
  • Luxury
  • News

Seabourn announces Western Kimberley Traditional Owners as Godparents of Seabourn Pursuit

Seabourn has named Western Kimberley Traditional Owners, the Wunambal Gaambera, as Godparents of the ultra-luxury purpose-built Seabourn Pursuit. It is the first cruise line to appoint Traditional Owners as godparents of a ship. Seabourn Pursuit embarks on its inaugural season in the Kimberley region this June. The naming ceremony will take place on Seabourn Pursuit’s […]