sand mining devastation

These images exemplify the role of coastal dunes and vegetation in preventing coastal erosion.
LUX magazine finds the Australian Government department of the environment and environment protection is effectively incommunicado; on the matter of sand mining in Tasmania on coastal reserves such as Blanche Beach. The environment department website has no contact info.     They state an intention to desist phosphate mining on Xmas Island which is good to hear, but no use to North East coast Tasmania beaches or elsewhere. Mining in these type of areas should never have happened. Why not stop such activities before more coastal habitat is lost to the sea because of sand mining.