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 …
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 …
“One Stop Chop” legal report released States’ forest destruction shameful Who remembers the RFAs? They are a 15 year failed experiment of handing all environmental powers for our forests to the states. A damning legal report titled “One Stop Chop” has just been released and takes a look at the states’ forest management over that …
This is so insane it seems it can’t be real; while primary native forests are bulldozed and burnt over in East Gippsland (at our expense), the blue gum MIS plantations from western Vic (put in at our expense) are being bulldozed and burnt – because there’s no market for their wood! About 2.5 million acres …
As well as the recent story about the massive areas of blue gums being bulldozed and burnt due to the MIS failure (see article here)– this 7:30 Report shows that those plantations have now become the habitat of many koalas. But they are being killed in their hundreds – if they’re lucky. Many suffer horrific …
Did you know – National Parks are set to be developed, mined, logged, grazed and shot in – the works! And did you know – for a politician:• A personal phone call is worth 100 emails• A personal face to face visit is worth 100 calls So one face to face meeting means you represent …
Hoorah—an environment group in the US has just succeeded in overturning the law that exempts the burning of forest trees or ‘biomass’ as pollution. The court decided “There is no statutory basis for exempting biogenic carbon dioxide”. This is a good move in the right direction—and must also put the wind up the forest burning/ethanol …
Australia’s once common digging mammals that played an important role in ecosystem function, have been largely lost from our landscape. Around half of digging mammal species are now extinct or under conservation threat, and those that still exist have very contracted ranges. Bioturbation (digging and scratching) significantly alters soil processes, altering the chemical and structural …
