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Talking to the press outside court. Australia needs strong environment laws that protect our environment and laws that allow people to act for the protection of the environment. We also need laws that don’t allow you to be sued and tied up in court for years for taking action to protect the environment. The law matters for the protection of our forests, oceans, woodlands and great arid wilderness. The law matters if we are to stop climate change.
Legal updates
- Gunns Law Suit Against The Wilderness Society & Others - June 03, 2008
- Protecting Public Participation - June 03, 2008
In December 2004, forestry giant Gunns Ltd sued The Wilderness Society, five of its staff, and 14 other conservation groups and individuals (including Green Members of Parliament, Bob Brown and Peg Putt) in relation to the campaign to protect Tasmania's forests. This is the so-called Gunns 20 case.
The oceans, forests, woodlands and arid areas, and the non-human species which inhabit them, can not speak for themselves. Environmental protection requires a civil society which supports environmental activity, and which fully supports public participation in the political debate and decision making processes.
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