(Australia Twitter)-THE AUSTRALIAN Greens leader Senator Bob Brown has told the ABC that he is worried about undersea mining using robot technologies.
Senator Brown will push for an Australian Senate inquiry into the impact of undersea mining.
Senator Brown said the committee hearings in Brisbane were told there were now "well less than 100,000" koalas left on the continent.
He said all the factors involved in the population disaster, such as land clearing and the destruction of trees, are continuing.
Senator Brown said the investment in tackling an AIDS-like disease and chlamydia is pathetic.
Papua New Guinea is the first country to have undersea mining projects.
Brown said he is concerned about the environmental impacts the Solwara One gold and copper projects would have, which he said is using new robot technologies to mine the sea floor.
It's the national icon (but) there are fewer left in Australia now than there were in the slaughter years in the 1920s, and the numbers are crashing.
"We have to deal with that.
t's a very, very worrying direction for mining to be taking."
The Greens have been vocal about their opinion that all mining should cease in Australia, with renewable energy sources used in its place.
Brown attracted a barrage of criticism in January, when he linked the devastating Queensland floods on climate change caused by coal mining.
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