Northern Territory Updates

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.

Looking North - A Joint Venture for our Northern Oceans - June 06, 2008

Northern Marine Campaigner, Prue Barnard, is actively campaigning for greater protection of Australia’s northern waters by advocating for the establishment of fully protected marine parks and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.

Northern Rivers need urgent protection - May 17, 2008

The Wilderness Society is seeking the protection of our Northern Rivers based on a model of protection developed in Queensland through the Queensland Government’s Wild Rivers Act 2005.

The end of the Jabiluka Uranium Mine - campaign update - March 02, 2004

The Wilderness Society has welcomed the announcement that the mine decline (the hole) at Jabiluka will be filled and rehabilitated. The 50,000 tonnes of uranium ore which was brought to the surface during construction of Jabiluka will be put back under ground. The uranium ore caused great water management difficulties and expense, since being on the surface, just as environment groups and scientists had warned.

The Campaign to save Kakadu takes a giant step forward - September 07, 2003

Rio Tinto withdraws support for Jabiluka mine development in the short term.

Protecting Kakadu - resolution from World Wilderness Congress, 2001 - September 07, 2003

Resolution of the 7th World Wilderness Congress, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Oct/Nov 2001

Northern Australia Campaign Underway - September 07, 2003

In late May, environmentalists from around Australia converged on sleepy Darwin to discuss the formation of a campaign alliance to protect the magnificent wildcountry of Northern Australia.