Land Clearing Updates

The myth of Northern Australia becoming the “food bowl of Asia” has been dealt a crushing blow - February 23, 2010

In early February 2010, the Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce released a scientific report produced by the CSIRO that examined the future of development in Northern Australia. The report emphasized that massive irrigated development would face substantial natural constraints and severely impact on the region’s fragile ecosystems.

Historic trial: farmer fined $408,000 for illegal landclearing - March 01, 2009

Thanks to the efforts of The Wilderness Society in investigating and publicising illegal landclearing and urging the authorities to act, the landowner behind the Gwydir wetland clearing  was prosecuted and this month, the Land and Environment Court of NSW imposed a fine of $408,000 on two counts of breaching the NSW Native Vegetation Act. This is one of the first successful prosecutions under the 2003 legislation and the largest fine imposed to date.

Garnaut shows native forests part of climate solution - February 12, 2010

The final report from Professor Garnaut’s Climate Change Review says that Australia’s greenhouse emissions can be reduced significantly if logging of native forests and land clearing are stopped immediately.

Help protect the Tiwi Islands from land clearing - August 22, 2008

The Tiwi Islands are a tropical paradise whose forests and wildlife are being destroyed for woodchips. If Stage 2 is approved by the Northern Territory and Commonwealth Governments, approximately 1/8 of the Islands will be destroyed in Northern Australia’s single biggest land clearing operation.

NT Election wrap-up - August 14, 2008

The Northern Territory election, held on Saturday 9th of August, ended up a cliff hanger. The returned Labor Government has promised to maintain a moratorium on land clearing in the Daly River region and to order a full and public assessment of the environmental, social and economic implications of any further landclearing in the Tiwi Islands.

A plea to stop Tiwi Islands land clearing - July 30, 2008

In 2005, the Northern Territory Parks and Conservation Master Plan identified that all of the Tiwi’s contained conservation values of international significance for biodiversity. For this reason, the Tiwi’s are of immense conservation importance.

NT Election - put an end to destructive land clearing - July 30, 2008

During the course of the Northern Territory election campaign, The Wilderness Society is running an advertising campaign, calling on all the political parties to pledge to protect the Territory’s forests, woodlands and rivers from destructive land clearing.

Minister confronted on land clearing - June 11, 2008

NSW Minister for the Environment, Verity Firth, spoke today with NSW Campaign Manager, Timothy King, at a land clearing protest organised by the Sydney Campaign Centre.

Wilderness Tours - June 21, 2007

The Wilderness Society Victoria would like to invite you to join us for a breathtaking and informative tour of the Central Highlands, just 90 minutes East of Melbourne. The Central Highlands, part of the Great Dividing Range North-east of Melbourne, cover an area over a million hectares. This area contains iconic places like the Yarra Valley, the Acheron Way, Lake Mountain, and Mt Baw Baw, all surrounded by magnificent mountain forests.

Land clearing WA - May 29, 2008

Despite 80% of the Swan Coastal Plain (Perth and its surrounds) being cleared for industry, housing and development, the remaining bushlands and wetlands continue to be cleared at an alarming rate.