Media
Taxpayers stump up for logging policy failures
January 10, 2012.
Opinion - Andrew Darby - The Age
As $45 million of your taxes is about to be divvied up for broke loggers, a worrying precedent has come to light that raises serious questions about this bailout of a struggling industry.
The watchdog's kennel in clandestine Croydon
Philip Dorling - The Age
January 7, 2012
AN INCONSPICUOUS Melbourne apartment block is home to a monitoring service that keeps watch on environment groups at the request of the federal government.
The National Open Source Intelligence Centre, a private intelligence company, works under contract for the Australian Federal Police and Federal Attorney-General's Department to monitor activist websites, blogs, Facebook and Twitter to provide warning and analysis of protest activity.
Spies eye green protesters
Philip Dorling - The Age
January 7, 2012
A FEDERAL government minister has pushed for increased police surveillance of environmental activists peacefully protesting at coal-fired power stations and coal export facilities.
Documents released to The Saturday Age under freedom-of-information laws reveal that federal police are continually monitoring anti-coal mining groups, and other environmental bodies.
Forest Health Versus Global Warming: Fuel Reduction Likely to Increase Carbon Emissions
ScienceDaily (Dec. 20, 2011) — Forest thinning to help prevent or reduce severe wildfire will release more carbon to the atmosphere than any amount saved by successful fire prevention, a new study concludes.
Zoos a breed apart for species on the brink
Ollie Milman
Sunday Age , January 8, 2012
MELBOURNE'S zoos will become urban arks, breeding sanctuaries for 20 of the most at-risk species in the state, as scientists struggle to save them from extinction.
Flagging a strategic shift to become a ''zoo-based conservation organisation'', Zoos Victoria - which includes Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and Werribee Open Range Zoo - has released a ''priority'' list of species it believes are in urgent need of help.
Power shift sees minister lose key responsibilities
The Age
Reid Sexton, Tom Arup
December 30, 2011
VICTORIAN Environment Minister Ryan Smith has lost several key responsibilities involving logging and hunting, capping off a tumultuous year for the Liberal MP.
Australia must not rort Kyoto protocol rules
Media Release The Australian Greens
Spokesperson Christine Milne
Thursday 8th December 2011
Australians should be very troubled that the Gillard Government is trying to rort the system through renegotiating the rules on Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) under the Kyoto Protocol in at the Durban climate conference. the Australian Greens said today.
Opponents chip away at payment to Gunns for forest rights
The Age
Andrew Darby
October 4, 2011
A PAYMENT of $23 million by the federal government to Gunns Ltd has come under renewed scrutiny over whether the embattled forestry company was entitled to the money.
Victorian environment laws put to the test
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Premier resists release of Gunns' compo advice
abc.net.au
September 29, 2011
The Tasmanian Premier is under more pressure to release the Solicitor-General's advice about the payout to Gunns for their native timber contracts.