Climate Change Updates

Australia's Outback Found to be a Vast Climate 'Pollution Bank' - September 01, 2010

Australia’s vast Outback has been found to play a vital role in absorbing and storing damaging climate pollution and, if better managed, the area could become a key factor in reducing the nation’s greenhouse emissions, according to a new national study.

Walk Against Warming 2010 Tasmania - August 19, 2010

Well over 1000 people participated in the Walk Against Warming in Hobart and Launceston and marched under the slogan "walk with the people, not the big polluters".

Thousands join the Walk Against Warming across Australia - August 15, 2010

Over 15,000 people across Australia marched together in the Walk Against Warming yesterday in protest over the political inaction against climate change.

Seeking a solution for Tasmania's world-class forests - August 12, 2010

Australia is home to some of the most magnificent forests on Earth. And these forests are able to store massive amounts of carbon. They have a huge role to play in solutions to climate change. This solution is now within our reach. You can help us achieve forest protection and a major climate solution by signing this petition.

Australian Federal Election - Your environment, your future, your vote - July 23, 2010

The Federal election is on Saturday, August 21. Get active, tell the major parties the environment is your priority, and let’s get the environment and action on climate change on the federal agenda.

Protecting native forests: an essential climate measure - June 10, 2010

The government has abandoned their Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, but there’s a cheap, practical way of cutting greenhouse gas emissions that’s ready right now - protecting Australia’s unique native forests. 

Unbelievable but true! Risk of international decision to ignore normal logging emissions in developed countries. - May 16, 2010

International negotiations on climate change are continuing, despite the disappointments of the big Copenhagen meeting of last December. And just when we need incentives to protect forests to reduce emissions, a draft decision for developed countries that ignores emissions from normal logging of forests is on the table.

Gunns' shareholders seek radical shake up. Tasmanians call for an end to native forest logging. - April 29, 2010

Gunns Chairman, John Gay, and Director, Robin Gray (former Tasmanian Premier), took steps last week to try and entrench a ‘business as usual' approach at Gunns Ltd – Australia's largest export woodchipper – by cementing the timber company's destructive business practices and advancing the proposed Tamar Valley pulp mill.

International Forests and Climate Campaign Gets Moving Again - April 14, 2010

UN Climate Change negotiations kicked off this month in the wake of last December’s disappointing Copenhagen meeting. The Wilderness Society was in attendance keeping up the pressure for urgent protection of the world’s forests as important carbon stores, and for this to be a priority in negotiations this year.

Boom time for the Channel Country rivers of Lake Eyre Basin - March 25, 2010

It’s boom time for the Channel Country rivers of Lake Eyre Basin in central Australia – for nature, and for the local community. For the second year running, major rains and floods have completely transformed Australia’s arid heart into a lush, green water-land, bursting with birdlife and brimming with breeding fish. It is without doubt one of the most spectacular natural events on the planet.