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Eco Media's Founder, Features Editor and Volunteer Coordinator Seamas McCaffrey manages to keep things bubbling along while working on biodiversity conservation in the Asia Pacific.
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WWF
WWF and Indonesian environment groups claim that European and Japanese taxpayers are among those unwittingly underwriting the continued destruction of important forest in Sumatra, including habitat for endangered tigers. A new report from Sumatra-based NGO coalition Eyes on the Forest, shows that Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) agreed to protect high conservation value forest under debt restructuring agreements it made with taxpayer-backed financial institutions in nine countries, in 2004. However, Eyes on the Forest believes subsequent forest clearing blatantly breaches that commitment.
posted by seamas on March 28, 2012 at 7:23 am · filed under 
Keep Australia Beautiful
The National Chair of Keep Australia Beautiful National Association, Don Chambers, has called for cooperation and increased partnerships to help develop an improved recycling system that covers all used packaging materials in order to reduce litter. Chambers emphasized the need for “good partnerships between stakeholders and a focus on personal responsibility” to improve recycling rates nationally.
posted by seamas on March 20, 2012 at 7:16 am · filed under 
The Age
Public consultation on the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s $9 billion draft plan to save the river system has been roundly criticized for being initiated before the results of an important CSIRO study on the environmental benefits of returning environmental flows is released.
posted by seamas on March 13, 2012 at 7:50 am · filed under 
BBC News
Japan has cut short its whale hunt with less than a third the kills it’s annual quota allows. Japan’s Fisheries Agency blamed adverse weather conditions and sabotage by activists. Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd meanwhile claimed success in it’s campaign to disrupt the hunt.
posted by seamas on March 9, 2012 at 11:04 pm · filed under 
Mongabay
PT Hindoli, a subsidiary of agribusiness giant Cargill, has been fined $1 million for clearing land to grow palm oil trees beyond its concession in in South Sumatra, Indonesia. Environmental group Greenomics-Indonesia believes the fine could set a precedent and act as a warning to other palm oil companies clearing land illegally.
posted by seamas on March 2, 2012 at 7:39 am · filed under
ABC News
In some rare good news for sharks, whose global populations have been devastated by decades of overfishing, researchers have found numbers in Tasmanian waters are showing signs of recovery.
posted by seamas on February 27, 2012 at 7:18 am · filed under
Reuters
The World Bank has announced a new alliance and funding commitment to protect the world’s oceans from threats such as over-fishing and pollution. World Bank President Robert Zoellick highlighted the importance of sustainable healthy oceans to a living planet and healthy global economy, declaring the Bank’s aim to “leverage as much as $1.2 billion to support healthy and sustainable oceans,” in partnership with governments, the scientific community, civil society organizations, and the private sector. Commentators say market mechanisms will be key to putting fisheries and other ocean dependent industries on a sustainable path.
posted by seamas on February 24, 2012 at 9:02 am · filed under
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