Publication | 2022
Impactos ambientais da dispersão de rejeitos de mineração em ambientes costeiros e marinhos
Com base no volume de rejeitos lançados e na extensão das áreas atingidas, o rompimento da Barragem de Fundão, em Mariana, Minas Gerais, foi o maior desastre ambiental de todos os tempos na mineração brasileira, e um dos mais graves do mundo. Ao serem transportados a jusante da barragem rompida…
Publication | 2022
The environmental impacts of a major mine tailings spill on coastal and marine environments
Based on the volume of tailings releases and the distance they travelled, the Fundão Dam failure in southeast Brazil (Mariana, Minas Gerais state) was the largest ever environmental disaster in Brazil’s mining industry, and one of the world’s most serious. As they dispersed downriver, the…
Publication | 2021
Da restauração à governança responsiva
Atividades extrativas e práticas agrícolas insustentáveis afetam a bacia hidrográfica do Rio Doce e suas áreas costeiras e marinhas adjacentes há séculos. Quando a barragem de rejeitos de Fundão se rompeu em 5 de novembro de 2015, uma onda de lama desceu o rio até chegar ao mar, causando 19…
Publication | 2021
From restoration to responsive governance
The Rio Doce watershed and its adjacent coastal and marine areas have been affected by centuries of extractive activities and unsustainable agricultural practices. When the Fundão tailings dam collapsed on 5 November 2015, a wave of mud swept down the river to the sea, causing 19 deaths,…
Publication | 2021
Abordagens fonte-mar e de paisagem
O relatório traz informações e dados selecionados sobre a qualidade física, química e biológica da água e uma visão geral da biodiversidade terrestre, de água doce e marinha na bacia do Rio Doce desde o rompimento da barragem até o momento atual. Também apresenta uma revisão das abordagens…
Publication | 2021
Source-to-sea and landscape approaches
The report contextualises the current status of water quality and biodiversity in the Rio Doce watershed, providing selected data and information on the physical, chemical and biological quality of the water and an overview of the terrestrial, freshwater and marine biodiversity since the dam…
Grey literature | 2015
Greater bilby recovery summit 2015 : report and interim conservation plan
The following report and interim conservation plan is the result of a four-day intensive planning workshop for the Greater Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) involving 39 individuals that I would consider to be experts in their particular fields and representative of 29 organisations involved directly…
Grey literature | 2017
The Bellinger River Snapping Turtle (BRST) (Myuchelys georgesi) is a freshwater turtle endemic to a 60 km stretch of the Bellinger River, and possibly a portion of the nearby Kalang River in coastal north eastern New South Wales (NSW). In mid-February, 2015 a significant mortality event was…
Publication | 1992
Australasian marsupials and monotremes : an action plan for their conservation
This Action Plan lists 39 endangered and Vulnerable species and 55 Potentially Vulnerable species; in all 94 marsupials and 2 monotreme species that need some form of conservation action. It first describes the zoo-geography of Australasian marsupials and monotremes and the taxonomy used, and…