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	<title>Help save Leadbeater's Possum</title>
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	<description>Victoria's Endangered State Faunal Emblem!</description>
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		<title>Green Carbon Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here for the first volume of the Green Carbon Report, published last year.
The second volume was recently released in June 2009:
Preserving old-growth forests is vital to saving the planet
* Gavan McFadzean
* June 22, 2009
SO WHERE are the world&#8217;s most carbon-rich forests? Not the tropical rainforests of the Amazon, Borneo or Africa&#8217;s Congo Basin, according to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/green-carbon-report-2/</link>
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		<title>VicForests denies illegal logging claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted July 1, 2010 20:00:00
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/01/2942598.htm?site=melbourne&#38;section=news
Victorian timber arm VicForests has denied it is illegally cutting down old trees and threatening endangered species in logging operations north-east of Melbourne.
The environmental body Flora and Fauna Research Collective has today launched court action against VicForests.
It is accusing the state-owned timber entity of breaching the Sustainable Forests Timber Act, through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/vicforests-denies-illegal-logging-claims/</link>
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		<title>VicForest charge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kath Gannaway

6th July 2010 02:00:32 AM
http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/91185
MyEnvironment member Adam Menary says current forestry 
 
A PRELIMINARY hearing into claims VicForests has illegally logged Leadbeater’s possum habitat in Toolangi will be heard at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court in August.
Research group The Fauna and Flora Research Collective has brought criminal charges against the State Government’s forestry arm in what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/vicforest-charge/</link>
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		<title>Council calls for stop to native logging in Yarra Ranges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[28 Jun 10 @ 07:19am by Emily Webb
 http://lilydale-yarra-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/council-calls-for-stop-to-native-logging-in-yarra-ranges/
YARRA Ranges Council is putting its weight behind a community push to stop native forest logging within the shire.
At a packed meeting on June 23, residents from Toolangi and Healesville heard from council representatives and environmental lobby and conservation groups.
Lyster ward councillor Samantha Dunn told the audience of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/council-calls-for-stop-to-native-logging-in-yarra-ranges/</link>
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		<title>VicForests accused of felling old-growth mountain ash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/vicforests-accused-of-felling-oldgrowth-mountain-ash-20100628-zf5o.html
ADAM MORTON
June 29, 2010


THE Victorian government&#8217;s forestry arm will face a legal challenge over claims it illegally logged old-growth forest and increased the risk to a threatened species.
Environmental groups accuse VicForests of felling dozens of pre-1900 ash eucalypts, breaching the Central Highlands Forest Management Plan.
An impending legal case will also claim the timber agency failed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/vicforests-accused-of-felling-old-growth-mountain-ash/</link>
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		<title>Healesville wildlife group digs deep for native wildlife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Healesville wildlife group digs deep for native wildlife
1 July 2009
Presentation of a generous donation from Judith Eardley Save Wildlife Association to aid
A small Healesville based wildlife association, comprised of just ten volunteers, has made an extraordinarily generous donation to help save and protect native wildlife affected by the recent Black Saturday bushfires. The Judith Eardley [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/healesville-wildlife-group-digs-deep-for-native-wildlife/</link>
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		<title>State&#8217;s emblem nearly extinct</title>
		<description><![CDATA[State&#8217;s emblem nearly extinct
&#8220;The Age&#8221; &#8211; Peter Weekes August 5, 2007
THE tiny Leadbeater&#8217;s possum, Victoria&#8217;s state faunal emblem, could be extinct in a few years if its numbers continue to plummet.
The population of the tiny nocturnal animal has dropped sharply since it was listed as critically endangered in 1996 &#8211; despite a decade-long joint federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/states-emblem-nearly-extinct/</link>
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		<title>Garrett moves to save ecosystems not specific species</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garrett moves to save ecosystems not specific species
Tom Arup The Age, August 18, 2009
ENVIRONMENT Minister Peter Garrett has warned that money to save endangered species is limited and he will have to make hard decisions on the fate of some species in the future.
Mr Garrett told the International Congress of Ecology in Brisbane yesterday that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/garrett-moves-to-save-ecosystems-not-specific-species/</link>
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		<title>Faunal Emblem Threatened: The animal victims of Black Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faunal Emblem Threatened: The animal victims of Black Saturday
Transcript of ABC TV Broadcast: 22/05/2009 Reporter: Kate Arnott
TAMARA OUDYN, PRESENTER: When the February bushfires swept through the Central Highlands, millions of native animals were killed. Ten of Australia&#8217;s most threatened species were hit, including Victoria&#8217;s faunal emblem, the Leadbeater&#8217;s possum. The tiny marsupial is now on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/faunal-emblem-threatened-the-animal-victims-of-black-saturday/</link>
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		<title>Watching the bush recover after fires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching the bush recover after fires by Sarina Locke Canberra, ACT 19/03/2009.
Just two weeks after the devastating bushfires in Victoria, green shoots of life were poking through the soil. A team of US ecologists have toured the Kinglake and Marysville forest areas to assess the ecological damage and water quality problems. With them was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/watching-the-bush-recover-after-fires/</link>
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