Logging emits millions of cars worth of greenhouse gases. Logging and land clearing emit as much greenhouse gas as Australia's road, rail, sea and air traffic combined. Yet our forests and bushlands play an enormous role in protecting us from climate change, and protect our wildlife too. more »
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| Avoiding dangerous climate change |
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We must do all we can to limit climate change now. This means large and rapid reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases from all sources. |
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| Our forests are crucial carbon stores |
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How forests help to tackle climate change by Professor Brendan Mackey from the Australian National University and member of the WildCountry Science Council. |
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| The Wilderness Society works to secure a strong climate deal |
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The Wilderness Society is attending the international climate change negotiations that are being held in Bonn, Germany in June to ensure that the next climate deal promotes a safe climate and the protection of the world's biodiverse natural forests. |
Climate Change Updates
- Update from Bonn UN climate talks - June 23, 2009
- Astonishing science findings add yet another reason to protect Australia's forests - June 19, 2009
- The Wilderness Society takes to the streets for national day of action on climate change. - June 16, 2009
The Wilderness Society attended the latest round of UN climate deals talks in Bonn, Germany to help deliver a safe climate for people and the planet. The climate talks have reached a new stage with the creation of draft legal text. This is important for ensuring that the next global climate deal can be finalised in Copenhagen in December.
According to new research conducted by scientists from the Australian National University, it is not the tropical rainforests but Australian forests that store the most carbon per hectare. The findings were published in one of the world’s top science journals today (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).
Thousands marched across the country on Saturday 13 June calling on the Rudd government to take tougher action in tackling climate change.
Climate Change Events
- Community carbon-counting days
With your help, we can measure the amount of carbon stored in the forests that Forestry Tasmania is planning on logging. Community carbon-counting days: Sunday 5 July - Upper Florentine Valley, Southern Tasmania; Sunday 2 August - Styx Valley, Southern Tasmania; Sunday 6 September - Blue Tier, North-East Tasmania
Climate Change Media Releases
- Storing carbon in native forests ignored in first forestry statement by Rudd Government - June 25, 2009
- Federal Government must act to protect Australia’s “most carbon dense” forests - June 16, 2009
- World's youth deliver survival plea to UN climate talks: halt deforestation and industrial logging of primary forests - June 09, 2009
The Rudd Government’s first parliamentary statement on Australia’s forests today has failed to recognise new scientific evidence on the role and importance of native forests in storing greenhouse gases as part of the suite of measure needed to fight climate change, The Wilderness Society said.
The Federal Government must move urgently to protect the carbon stored in native forests as a part of a suite of measures needed to fight climate change, The Wilderness Society said today following revelations today that Australia’s native forests are the most carbon dense in the world.
Bonn, Germany - A coalition of youth, environmental groups, NGOs, Indigenous Peoples organizations and women's groups delivered a plea to negotiators asking them to ensure a strong climate deal and warning them that they will put our survival at risk if they do not act immediately to halt deforestation and the industrial logging of the world's primary forests (forest degradation).
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