Climate Change Media Releases

Peg Putt joins TWS for international climate change campaign - November 10, 2008

Peg Putt, former leader of the Tasmanian Greens, has returned to her conservation roots and begun work on a short term contract with The Wilderness Society's international climate change team.

Garnaut says that stopping logging of native forests can reduce emissions - September 30, 2008

The Final Report of Professor Ross Garnaut says that Australia’s greenhouse emissions can be reduced significantly if logging of native forests and land-clearing are stopped immediately, according to the Wilderness Society.

Garnaut didn’t mention the f word - September 05, 2008

Garnaut has not only taken the soft option with the announcement of a 10% by 2020 target but has totally overlooked the role that native forests and other natural ecosystems can play in combating dangerous climate change.

Garnaut must add southern forests protection to his call to protect the north - September 04, 2008

The Wilderness Society welcomes calls by the Prime Minister’s climate change adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, to protect the woodlands of northern Australia to boost biosequestration, but also urged for the protection of the forests of Victoria and Tasmania which have recently been identified as some of the most carbon dense on earth.

Climate Torch Relay’s Warburton leg calls for protection of Carbon Banks - September 02, 2008

Get Up’s National Climate Torch Relay continues today, amid calls to protect Victoria’s native forests as carbon banks as a key part of Australia’s response to climate change.  Members of the Warburton community & The Wilderness Society are taking to the torch to some of the most carbon-rich forests on the planet, just one and a half hours north-east of Melbourne.

National Climate Torch Relay calls on PM Rudd to reject Gunns’ pulpmill as a step towards climate change action - August 15, 2008

For six weeks during August and September, the GetUp Climate Torch Relay will tour right across Australia – through rural towns and capital cities in every state and territory – on its way to Parliament House, Canberra on September 21. Along the route local communities are hosting legs of the relay, which calls on our leaders to halve Australia’s greenhouse pollution by 2020.

C'mon Mr Bartlett - look at the carbon in the forests - July 17, 2008

The Wilderness Society welcomes the acknowledgment in Premier David Bartlett’s climate change report that Tasmania’s forests are vast stores of carbon and the Society has called upon the government to protect them from logging.

Garnaut Response: Natural forests' carbon value must be resolved before emissions trading - July 04, 2008

The deep cuts necessary to address climate change can only be achieved if the role of forests is properly measured and the value of native forests recognized, The Wilderness Society said today.

Report highlights Queensland environment in decline despite 10 years of Labor Government - June 27, 2008

A report released  by Conservation shows that Queensland’s environment is in a state of decline after ten years of Labor in power.

WA's greenhouse gas emissions contiue to rise unabated - June 26, 2008

The latest official figures for WA’s greenhouse gas emissions (1990-2006), released yesterday by the Federal Department of Climate Change, paint a very disturbing picture.