Australia is already feeling the effects of climate change, with record-breaking temperatures not just over summer, but over the past 12 months as well. Research suggests that such events are many times more likely thanks to climate change. The IPCC fifth assessment report on climate science found evidence for climate change is unequivocal. The impacts …
Why must it take a tiny environment group to force a government to obey its own laws on threatened species? Jill Redwood wonders what happened to the Victorian Government’s morals. AS I WRITE, the bulldozers and chainsaws are brutalising another superb stand of ancient forest not far from where I am just out of Orbost, …
When EEG asked Greg Hunt to clarify why the Coalition would appoint a commissioner to oversee threatened species when they also plan to hand all threatened species responsibilities to the states, Greg Hunt (Fed shadow env minister) replied: ‘Many thanks and the Commissioner would be responsible for preparing, implementing and monitoring threatened species plans’. Again …
Plans to increase the area burnt across our forests and woodlands to meet a target that has no scientific backing is bad enough. But the plans to punch huge ‘fire breaks’ hundreds of kilometres long across the landscape is the ultimate insanity. Below are a few important points on the issue: A fire break will …
The Victorian Association of Forest Industries (VAFI) welcomed the announcement that the Victorian Government would invest $650,000 in Australia’s largest hardwood sawmill. The announcement was made last week by the Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional and Rural Development, The Hon Peter Ryan. VAFI CEO Lisa Marty said this investment, part of a $2.62 million …
A suppressed state govt report is telling us that our wildlife is fast being tipped into the pit of extinction – knowingly! Entire wildlife species are still being sacrificed for the greed of corporates. In this instance the logging mafia demands access to hundreds of thousands of ha of public native forests to shred for …
Despite once being described as common, mammals have been lost across the Australian landscape over the last 200 years. The impact has been particularly severe on Australia’s digging mammals, including iconic species like echidnas, bilbies and bandicoots. New research shows that the decline is not just bad for mammals, but for Australia’s ecosystems too. Through …
CONSERVATION groups seeking boycotts of products linked to environmental destruction may soon be liable for prosecution under consumer law. The move could hamper market-based campaigns by groups such as Markets for Change and GetUp! Currently, green groups have exemptions for secondary boycott activities under the Consumer and Competition Act. The Abbott government is going to …
The results aren’t all in yet – but one thing is sure – the Greens have made history again in Melbourne by re-electing Adam Bandt and also Janet Rice as a new Senator for Vic. The Greens’ Peter Whish-Wilson is back in Tasmania and Sarah Hanson-Young in South Australia and Scott Ludlam in Western Australia …
As part of that rotten Tassie forest agreement, last week $2.8 million was generously handed to a forest liquidating project run by Dorset Renewable Energies as part of the regional development package. This is a very dangerous foot-in-the-door for all our forests! And where are the green group signatories to the Tassie deal who so …
