Garnaut shows forests part of climate solution
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A significant breakthrough for climate change and forests was contained deep in the final report of Professor Ross Garnaut, released on 30 September 2008. Professor Garnaut’s final report says that Australia’s greenhouse emissions can be reduced dramatically if logging of native forests and land-clearing are stopped immediately. While the overall thrust of the report was disappointing (in that it fails to set adequate targets for reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases), a major step forward occurred with the inclusion of the findings of research by the Australian National University on the carbon-carrying capacity of Australia’s eucalypt forests. more » |
Cape York Peninsula
A chance to save three wild rivers
A window of opportunity to protect Cape York’s precious wild rivers has just opened. The Qld and Federal Governments are now pursuing a World Heritage listing.
Coorong needs water!
The Lower Murray Lakes and Coorong area has been starved of water for so long that it is almost dead.
We are now dealing with an environmental disaster - and a political embarrassment of international proportions. However, an opportunity now exists to fix this problem. It simply requires the political will to do so.
Focus: Native forest research
Research finds native forests key to climate solution.
World-first research from the Australian National University has shown that unlogged native forests store three times more carbon than previously thought.
The research identifies that Australia has some of the most carbon dense forests on Earth - and that logging and clearing them has significant climate implications.
Upcoming Events
- Forest and Climate Change Forums
- WildEndurance, 2/3 May 2009
- Film Screening - "Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?"
In August, September and October, The Wilderness Society will present 'Forest and Climate Change Action Forums' - along the east coast of Australia. Find out more about the science behind green carbon, and the urgent need to protect the rich carbon banks in Australia’s Forests.
WildEndurance: the new standard. 100km through the Blue Mountains in one weekend, raising funds to save the planet. Find out how to register!
The remarkable story of Brenda
Hean – a leader of the world’s first environmental
political party – whose fight to save
Tasmania’s Lake Pedder from a massive hydro-electric scheme lead to her
mysterious disappearance in 1972. When - Hobart 5 October, 4pm & Melbourne 9 October, 7pm
Media Releases
- Garnault says that stopping logging of native forests can reduce emissions - September 30, 2008
- Tillegra Dam – will destroy a river, its wildlife and our wallets! - September 29, 2008
- Crisis in WA rock lobster fishery highlights need for marine sanctuaries - September 26, 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.
The proposed Tillegra Dam on the Williams River near Newcastle, NSW, is unnecessary, expensive and destructive.
The Western Rock Lobster fishery crisis highlights the urgent need for a science-based network of marine sanctuaries in WA, according to WA’s leading marine advocacy organisations.
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