Northern Territory
The Lost City, Cape Crawford: bones of the continent rise from the monsoonal forest. The Top End isn’t just magnificent: its a vibrant, modern community that’s thriving and growing without devastating the natural environment as has happened to many regions further south. Tourists from around the world and Australia are joining Territorians in droves, to love the spectacular nature of nature in the N.T. Although we don’t have a campaign centre in the Territory, we’re still working to protect its beautiful wild rivers and vast savanna wilderness, following earlier campaigns that helped protect Kakadu and prevent the Jabiluka uranium mine. We’re protecting the foundations of success by protecting the N.T.’s environment.
Northern Territory Updates
- Help protect the Tiwi Islands from land clearing - August 22, 2008
- NT Election wrap-up - August 14, 2008
- A plea to stop Tiwi Islands land clearing - July 30, 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.
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.
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.
Northern Territory Media Releases
- Garrett's strong stand on Tiwi logging - October 15, 2008
- Northern Territory election: environment groups issue policy report card - August 08, 2008
- Green groups welcome NT Government scrutiny of Tiwi Island’s landclearing - August 07, 2008
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.
A coalition of environment groups this morning issued a report card assessing the environmental policies of the political parties on the eve of the Northern Territory election. The report card is published in this morning’s NT News.
The Wilderness Society and the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory welcome today’s announcement by the Northern Territory Chief Minister that any further land clearing on the Tiwi Islands will be subject to a full and public environmental assessment process.
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