Climate Tasmania

A Tasmanian take on the thorniest global issue since the dinosaurs. Based on Peter Boyer’s newspaper column in the Hobart Mercury.

Needed: an army of fisher-folk to help unravel the sea’s secrets

Our oceans bear some disturbing tidings about the state of our planet, which we need urgently to attend to. Redmap is a Tasmanian initiative that seeks to involve fishing people in mapping changes to our coastal marine environment. [15 December 2009 | Peter Boyer]
The British and the sea have close connections. They invented the modern navy, [...]