Climate Change Media Releases

Hello… green policies? Gillard, Abbott Missing-In-Action on nature conservation - August 03, 2010

The Wilderness Society has criticized both Labor and the Coalition for failing to present clear, positive policies to protect our native forests, our unique natural ecosystems and marine environments, and iconic places like the Kimberley and Cape York.

Parliamentary nod to burning native forests for electricity - June 24, 2010

Laws designed to encourage renewable energy ventures are having the perverse effect of incentivising the logging of native forests, The Wilderness Society said.

Developed countries seeking loopholes to avoid emissions cuts at UN climate talks - June 08, 2010

BONN, Germany – Rich developed countries are attempting to cheat on accounting for their carbon emissions from logging and will only agree to ambitious overall greenhouse gas reduction targets if they get the forestry loopholes they demand, warned the Ecosystems Climate Alliance today.

Bonn climate change talks start with Australia hiding emissions from logging - June 02, 2010

Australian Government negotiators at the United Nation's climate change talks in Bonn are colluding with other developed countries to hide almost 400 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year from forest logging, The Wilderness Society revealed today.

As UN Climate talks resume, protecting natural forests and peatlands and enforcing safeguards must be top priorities - June 02, 2010

BONN, Germany – As talks resume here today toward a new global deal to prevent catastrophic climate change, negotiators will be seeking a way forward on the challenge of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).

Fraudulent emissions accounting threatens to undermine progress on climate - May 27, 2010

Logging loophole in developed countries could be finalized at climate talks in Bonn - Progress towards a meaningful climate deal in 2010 could be significantly undermined if developed countries succeed in their bid to avoid accountability for their emissions from forestry and bioenergy use, according to forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA).

Campaigners call for change on UN forest definitions to protect the climate - May 31, 2010

Bonn – As climate change negotiations resume here this week, a coalition of environmental campaigners has called on the UN's scientific and technological advisory body¹ to create a new forest definition that differentiates natural forests from plantations. This is needed to prevent global efforts to protect forests and the climate from being undermined, according to the Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA).

Message in the sand for Peter Garrett to save Australia’s unique flatback turtles - May 24, 2010

Communities in Perth, Broome, Darwin and Cairns today joined with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, The Wilderness Society and Environs Kimberley to make giant sand turtles on beaches to highlight the threats flatback turtles face and urge the Federal Environment Minister to create safe havens for them.

Memorandum of Understanding supports Indigenous and conservation goals for the Great Western Woodlands - March 09, 2010

The Wilderness Society (TWS) and the Goldfields Land and Sea Council (GLSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, agreeing to work together for the protection of WA’s extraordinary Great Western Woodlands (GWW). The partners will develop a co-operative approach along with other land users to safeguard the ecology and cultural values of the region, and to ensure land justice and economic opportunities for the region’s Traditional Owners.

Opposition Can’t See The Wood For The 20 Million Trees - February 02, 2010

9.3 Billion Tonnes Of Carbon In Old Forests Ignored In Climate Policy - The Federal Opposition has missed a golden opportunity to focus on the huge stores of carbon in Australia’s remaining old-growth native forests as part of its plan to reduce greenhouse emissions, the Wilderness Society said today.