Northern Territory Media Releases
- The future of our environment hangs ‘in the balance’ - August 19, 2010
- Major party launches show our National Leaders are Missing-In-Action on the environment - August 16, 2010
- Hello… green policies? Gillard, Abbott Missing-In-Action on nature conservation - August 03, 2010
- Message in the sand for Peter Garrett to save Australia’s unique flatback turtles - May 24, 2010
- Extinction crisis for North Australia's mammals - May 13, 2010
- Green group calls for cool heads as pressure mounts in Northern Australia - March 25, 2010
- Tiwi Logging Inquiry Fails to Flush out Finances - October 29, 2009
- World Class Marine Environment one step closer to Protection - September 24, 2009
- Tiwi Island logging operations doomed from the start - September 14, 2009
- Garrett's strong stand on Tiwi logging - October 15, 2008
The Wilderness Society today released its final assessment of the Parties’ policies on the environment this Election. Our conclusion is that the two biggest parties, the ALP and the Liberal-National Coalition, have been missing-in-action on the environment this election.
The Wilderness Society has released its assessment of the political parties’ national leadership on the environment, and declared both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott ‘missing in action’.
The Wilderness Society has criticized both Labor and the Coalition for failing to present clear, positive policies to protect our native forests, our unique natural ecosystems and marine environments, and iconic places like the Kimberley and Cape York.
Communities in Perth, Broome, Darwin and Cairns today joined with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, The Wilderness Society and Environs Kimberley to make giant sand turtles on beaches to highlight the threats flatback turtles face and urge the Federal Environment Minister to create safe havens for them.
Australia is facing a new and potentially catastrophic wave of mammal extinctions. This is the finding of a high level meeting of scientists and land managers held last week in Darwin. The workshop of over 40 leading experts found that there are major and ongoing regional extinctions of many native mammals in Northern Australia.
The Wilderness Society today called on pro-development Indigenous leaders to take a cold shower before irreparably damaging long term relationships between Indigenous communities and environment groups. The call comes as mounting development pressures in the region continue to divide Indigenous community opinion over the future development of their land, with some Indigenous leaders yesterday lashing out at environment groups and pro-environment Indigenous groups for supporting conservation measures and opposing industrialisation of the North.
Tiwi logging inquiry has not investigated the propriety of complex financial arrangements surrounding the clearing of 30,000 hectares of valuable native forest, despite being specifically required to do so.
Leading conservation groups today welcomed the release of potential areas for marine protection in Australia’s northern oceans by the Commonwealth Government.
With speculation that major banks will withdraw support for the Tiwi Islands’ woodchip plantations on 30 September, the Wilderness Society calls for the closure of the controversial logging operation.
The Wilderness Society welcomes the decision by Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, to impose tough new conditions on logging giant, Great Southern Plantations, for a range of serious breaches of environmental conditions related to it's controversial clearing of 26 000 hectares of forests and woodlands on the Tiwi islands, north of Darwin.
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