This ABC recording from Professor Kingsley Dixon is a real voice of sanity in an otherwise truly incendiary debate. > LISTEN HERE Controlled burns destroy ecosystems and may not reduce fire risk By Robyn Williams on The Science Show, ABC Radio National > View podcast transcript here. Some of you may have noticed how ‘debate’
Environment
Environmental issues in the Capital region and surrounds.
Australian wildlife holocaust with fires and govt policies
WILDLIFE GENOCIDE . . . AUSTRALIA IS A GRAVEYARD AFTER SPENDING MOST of the Christmas break talking to wildlife carers in NSW, Queensland and South Australia, it’s very apparent we’re witnessing a deliberate calculated effort by governments to ensure the genocide of our unique, irreplaceable defenceless wildlife. There’s simply zero attention on
Australian native birds die in thousands to please rice growers and hunters
By another name VICTORIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Tasmania and the Northern Territory each have a recreational shooting season. The result is the cruel death of hundreds of thousands of Australian waterbirds each year. Much of this killing occurs on Ramsar sites. The killing does not stop there. “In New South Wales, which does
Pastoral revival, the Wooleen Way
DAVID POLLARD, PASTORALIST and author of The Wooleen Way has joined a growing number of regenerative farmers including the Monaro’s Charles Massy (Call of the Reed Warbler) showing the way toward a different compact with the nature of Australia. They say it is high time if farming and grazing in this
Like other Australian Wildlife: birdlife is in deep trouble
AS I LOOK around the Australian continent what I see happening to Australia’s birdlife is deeply troubling. In Victoria there is now a mounting tension among the section of the community that cares about birdlife as we wait to hear if the Victorian Labor Government calls yet another duck shooting season. Mass-scale
Bushfire mayors want climate change on the table
MAYORS FROM THIRTEEN thirteen councils have signed a statement calling on the federal government to acknowledge the link between climate change and the catastrophic fires that have swept through NSW and Queensland. A bushfire threatens a lone home (Ash Hogan).The federal government has so far refused to acknowledge that climate
Scientists re-counted Australia’s extinct species, and the result is devastating
IT’S WELL ESTABLISHED that unsustainable human activity is damaging the health of the planet. The way we use Earth threatens our future and that of many animals and plants. Species extinction is an inevitable end point. It’s important that the loss of Australian nature be quantified accurately. To date, putting an
Timetable set down for waste export ban
AUSTRALIA’S ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS have agreed to ban the export of all glass and plastic waste from July 2021. After meeting in Adelaide last week the Commonwealth, state and Territory ministers signed up to a timetable for phasing out all waste exports starting from next July. Under the agreement, glass will be banned
Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
THE WORLD’S PEOPLE face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists. “We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency,” it states. “To secure a sustainable future, we must
An open letter to the Prime Minister from 248 concerned scientists
Dear Prime Minister WE THE UNDERSIGNED are scientists who every day study, catalogue and document Australia's unique native species and ecosystems and work out the evidence base needed to save them. Through our work we know intimately just how important the diversity of Australia's natural world is to the fabric of