Archive for the ‘Media 2011’ Category
Grants to help threatened species
1 Nov 11 @ 06:55am by Gilbert Gardiner http://berwick-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/grants-to-help-threatened-species/ A LEADING conservation authority has stepped up its campaign to protect endangered species across Casey and Cardinia. Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority has started distributing $65,000 in grants to help landowners build fences to control pest plants and animals and revegetate private properties. The [...]
November 3, 2011
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Tags: Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Habitat Protection, Leadbeater's Possum, Victorian Forests, Victorian Wildlife · Posted in: Media 2011
Grants to help protect species across Casey and Cardinia
25 Oct 11 @ 07:00am by Gilbert Gardiner http://cranbourne-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/grants-to-help-protect-species-across-casey-and-cardinia/ A LEADING conservation authority has stepped up its campaign to protect endangered flora and fauna species across Casey and Cardinia. Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority is distributing $65,000 in grants to help landowners build fences to control pest plants and animals, and revegetate private [...]
October 27, 2011
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Tags: Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Habitat Protection, Leadbeater's Possum, Victorian Wildlife · Posted in: Media 2011
Kallista teen fights for possums
18 Oct 11 @ 07:00am by Alex Munro http://free-press-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/kallista-teen-fights-for-possums/ A KALLISTA teenager is leading a campaign to save the endangered Leadbeater’s possum. Elly Robertson, 14, is one of three teenagers from the eastern suburbs that make up the Help the Endangered Leadbeater’s Possum group. “We try to help in every respect we can, whether it’s [...]
October 20, 2011
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Tags: Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Leadbeater's Possum, Schools Project, Victorian Wildlife · Posted in: Media 2011
Toolangi forest logging halted until 2012
19 Sep 11 @ 04:06pm by Emily Webb http://lilydale-yarra-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/toolangi-forest-logging-halted-until-2012/ A HALT on logging in a Toolangi forest has been extended until February, 2012. The Supreme Court today extended the injunction to stop logging in Sylvia Creek forest near Toolangi after VicForests agreed to the moratorium. Healesville-based conservation group My Environment Inc has challenged the legality [...]
October 6, 2011
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Tags: Endangered Species, Habitat Protection, Illegal Logging, Leadbeater's Possum, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, VicForests · Posted in: Media 2011
Court extends Sylvia Creek logging injunction
Updated September 19, 2011 12:41:55 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-19/court-extends-sylvia-creek-logging-injunction/2905978 The Victorian Supreme Court has extended a ban on logging at a contentious site north-east of Melbourne until next year. Environmentalists took the government’s forestry arm, VicForests, to court last month over its timber operations at Sylvia Creek, near Toolangi. They argue the site is home to the threatened [...]
October 6, 2011
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Tags: Endangered Species, Habitat Protection, Illegal Logging, Leadbeater's Possum, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, VicForests · Posted in: Media 2011
Like a voice in the wilderness
ROSSLYN BEEBY 17 Sep, 2011 12:00 AM http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/opinion/editorial/general/like-a-voice-in-the-wilderness/2295146.aspx?storypage=0# ‘Life on earth is inconceivable without trees,” the great Russian playwright Anton Chekov wrote in a letter to a friend in the late 1880s. ”Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilisation nor happiness if forests crash [...]
September 19, 2011
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Tags: Biodiversity, Bushfire, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Forest Carbon, Habitat Protection, Illegal Logging, Leadbeater's Possum, Native Forest Campaign, Old Growth Logging, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting · Posted in: Media 2011
Just 1% of central highlands old growth survives
Adam Morton September 12, 2011 http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/just-1-of-central-highlands-old-growth-survives-20110911-1k498.html BEFORE European settlement up to 80 per cent of the wet eucalyptus forest of Victoria’s central highlands was old-growth mountain ash, with trees taller than 90 metres towering above the landscape. According to research published in US journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the old-growth is [...]
September 15, 2011
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Tags: Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Habitat Protection, Native Forest Campaign, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, Victorian Forests, Victorian Wildlife · Posted in: Media 2011
Government’s VicForests logs a profit, but only just
Ben Butler September 15, 2011 http://www.theage.com.au/business/governments-vicforests-logs-a-profit-but-only-just-20110914-1k9lh.html THE state government’s logging company, VicForests, burnt through more than $5 million in cash last year as its customers struggled to pay their bills, accounts tabled in Parliament yesterday reveal. Thanks to a $5.8 million grant for bushfire recovery services from the government, the native forest logging monopoly declared [...]
September 15, 2011
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Tags: Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, Victorian Forests · Posted in: Media 2011
Protest calls for Officeworks to dump Reflex
Lydia Sawtell | September 13, 2011 http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2011/09/13/381661_latest-news.html PROTESTERS donned rubber gloves this morning in Melbourne to demand Officeworks cleans up its act and dump Reflex paper. Officeworks recently banned the sale of paper from Asian rainforests vital for the survival of the Sumatran tiger, and now The Wilderness Society want the store to do the same [...]
September 15, 2011
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Tags: Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Habitat Protection, Native Forest Campaign, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, Victorian Forests · Posted in: Media 2011
Protesters stand firm on logging in Sylvia Creek
BY MELISSA CUNNINGHAM 02 Aug, 2011 04:00 AM http://www.maroondahweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/protesters-stand-firm-on-logging-in-sylvia-creek/2244177.aspx?src=email RALLIES have continued in the city and in the forest coupes of Sylvia Creek as protesters vow to stay united in their stance against logging by VicForests. More than 40 protesters – including Toolangi residents, city conservationists and members of the Wilderness Society and My Environment [...]
September 11, 2011
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Tags: Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Habitat Protection, Illegal Logging, Leadbeater's Possum, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, VicForests, Victorian Forests · Posted in: Media 2011
