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9/2/2013
A Malaysian state minister Friday said the government would not push ahead with building a dozen new dams on Borneo island, acknowledging they have caused outrage from local tribes and environmentalists.
The proposals sparked fears that ...
13/1/2012
BIG tracts of
Tasmanian native
forest now have legal
protection from logging in the tortuous process aimed at ending the state's generation-long
forests dispute.
Federal and state governments yesterday said the conservation agreement, ...
25/7/2011
A PEACE deal between
Tasmania's
forestry industry and environmental lobby has been secured by a $274 million government package, raising hopes the long-running conflict is near an end.
The deal hammered out at the weekend by the Prime ...
24/7/2011
PEACE is closer to being secured in the decades-long fight over
Tasmanian
forests after a $274 million government package aimed at ending most logging of native
forests was agreed on at the weekend.
But while the deal hammered out ...
28/3/2011
One of Australia's finest national parks, the Tarkine National Park is currently struggling to fend off various threats from mining companies it has been announced in a press release by The Tarkine National Coalition.
The Tarkine is one ...
22/3/2011
A compromise has kept the
Tasmanian
forest peace process alive but it is still causing divisions among green groups, with state and federal Greens leaders among those seemingly at odds. An agreed moratorium on the logging of
forests of high ...
16/10/2010
HATING
forestry and pulp giant Gunns Limited has long been a favourite pastime for many
Tasmanians, as any observer of car bumper stickers knows.
"Gunns -- dangerous in the wrong hands," reads one. "I no longer shop at Gunns," proclaims ...
10/10/2010
TASMANIA'S timber industry has agreed to phase out native
forest logging.
The decision would pave the way for a historic deal that promises to end 30 years of conflict and drive national reform.
A key barrier to the in-principle ...
13/9/2010
Environmental groups have welcomed Gunns' announcement that it will stop using native
forest for its pulp production to "end the
forestry wars".
Gunns chief executive Greg L'Estrange told the
Forest Industry Development Conference in ...
10/9/2010
Tasmanian Timber Giant Retreats from Old Growth Logging Environment News Service (ENS)
Tasmanian Timber Giant Retreats from Old Growth Logging
MELBOURNE, Australia, September 10, 2010 (ENS) - Australian environmental groups ...
25/8/2010
LESS rainfall and rising global temperatures are damaging one of the world's best guardians against climate change: trees.
A global study, published in the journal Science, shows that the amount of carbon dioxide being soaked up by the ...
1/5/2010
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The Prime Minister is not going to risk a double dissolution on the great moral issue of our time
KEVIN Rudd ...
2/7/2009
This is by no means a new battle: in fact,
Tasmanian industrial
foresters and environmentalists have been fighting over the issue of clearcutting the island’s
forests for decades. The battle--some would probably prefer 'war'--is over nothing less ...
8/9/2008
More than 10,000 people have joined a mass letter campaign, calling on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to save native
forests.
The Wilderness Society has submitted the letters, which included giant signed tree banners, to the GPO in Brisbane's ...
10/12/2007
Protesters claim to have stopped logging in the Styx Valley
forest in their
campaign for World Heritage
protection for
Tasmanian
forests.
Up to 10 activists walked into an area known as coupe SX10F of the Styx Valley,
west of ...
1/12/2007
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett faces a tough early test of his
new portfolio powers after a Federal Court decision yesterday to allow logging
in the Wielangta
forest on
Tasmania's east coast.
Under federal law, Mr ...
9/10/2007
DEBATE on the $2 billion pulp mill proposed by Gunns for the pristine Tamar
Valley in
Tasmania has spilled from its emotional localised base to the
mainland, where it has become a federal election issue - at least in the Sydney
seat of ...
7/8/2007
REMARKABLY, both the Australian Government and Labor Opposition have now
realised the importance of natural
forests to solving the global warming
problem. This is a good thing because the Kyoto Protocol is unfortunately blind
to the ...
24/7/2007
TASMANIA'S old growth
forests will receive no greater
protection under a
Labor Government than they do from the Coalition.
On a visit to
Tasmania yesterday, the Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, vanquished
the ghost of the former ...
21/7/2006
Rising sea levels linked with climate change are predicted to drown large
areas of mangroves that line the shores of Pacific island nations. Mangrove
forests provide shoreline
protection by reducing wave energy, they act to filter ...
28/9/2004
The sunburnt country of sweeping plains, rugged mountains and magnificent
beaches can turn on us in an instant. Anyone who has stood in the path of a
bushfire cannot doubt the terrible beauty of nature at its worst.
But we are in ...
15/9/2004
The great debate ended on Sunday without even a muttering of "Kyoto Protocol"
or "old-growth
forests" - a sign that, although the environment was billed to
take centre stage in this election, it has been a side issue. ...
27/12/2003
Michael Field vividly remembers the day he was out and about, on the hustings
somewhere, when Bob Brown's election jingle crackled across the car radio: "Go,
go the Greens for government."
Eleven years on, the former ...
1/4/2001
1) DISMAY AS U.S. DROPS CLIMATE PACT (CNN, NY Times, BBC, The Age) 2) EU PONDERS HOW TO KEEP U.S. IN WARMING ACCORD (ABC, CNN) 3) UK-PRESCOTT BLASTS FREE RIDER BUSH FOR PULL OUT (Observer) 4) UK TO GO IT ALONE ON GLOBAL WARMING (The Independent) ...
23/1/2001
1) REPORT WARNS OF DRAMATIC INCREASE IN WARMING (Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, BBC, London Times, Financial Times, Japan Times) 2) CURB IN EMISSIONS TO CUT ECONOMIC GROWTH (Japan Times, Kyodo) 3) EU, JAPAN DISCUSS NEW DECADE ...