An extraordinary general meeting of Gunns Limited shareholders has seen the sound defeat of a motion proposing the company end its logging in Tasmania’s old growth forests.
posted by seamas on August 30, 2003 at 10:06 pm · filed under 
The Australian Government will spend $97 million in 2003 to help improve access to safe drinking water for people in the Asia Pacific region. Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, says the work will help prevent future military conflict.
posted by seamas on August 30, 2003 at 10:02 pm · filed under 
A Victorian Government report recommends increased snowmaking and a focus on year-round tourism as key ways to limit the impact of climate change on mountain resorts.
posted by seamas on August 30, 2003 at 9:57 pm · filed under 
Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, favours a technological approach to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over a carbon trading system.
posted by seamas on August 30, 2003 at 9:53 pm · filed under
The top of the chain of those involved in the illegal fishing of Patagonian toothfish need to be brought to account if the problem is to be solved.
posted by seamas on August 30, 2003 at 9:45 pm · filed under
The Northern Territory’s Daly River is under threat from large scale irrigated agriculture and tree clearing, according to the Wilderness Society.
posted by seamas on August 26, 2003 at 8:26 pm · filed under 
David Kemp, Federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage, has announced the development of a National Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan. The plan will help protect Australia’s landscapes and wildlife against the impacts of global warming.
posted by seamas on August 26, 2003 at 8:25 pm · filed under
The Australian Conservation Foundation wants state and federal governments to commit $150 million-a-year for ten years to a rescue plan for the Murray-Darling basin.
posted by seamas on August 25, 2003 at 8:24 pm · filed under
An audit of Australia’s major electricity generators by WWF-Australia has confirmed they are the nation’s most significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.
posted by seamas on August 21, 2003 at 8:24 pm · filed under
The Federal Government has invested $16 million in environmental and sustainable agricultural work in regional Queensland, through the Natural Heritage Trust.
posted by seamas on August 21, 2003 at 8:21 pm · filed under
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