Habitat Australia articles from April 1997

Habitat Australia archives from April 1997

Coming together: green and black views on the land. (meetings between environmentalists and indigenous Australians)
April 1, 1997... Reconciliation between environmentalist and Indigenous Australians continues the long process of repairing past injustices to land and it people. We must review how the movement's campaigns and vision can accommodate the aspirations of Indigenous...

Nature conservation: a nice little earner.
April 1, 1997... Whenever a national park is proclaimed the cry goes up from the resource lobby: `X million dollars worth of timber/coal/uranium have been locked up. It's a backward step for regional Australia. Jobs will be lost'. The mass media helps to...

A winning place in the world. (Tasmania, Australia)
April 1, 1997... How teas Tasmania changed since the Franklin days? After 15 years away, ACF Councilor Lincoln Siliakus returned to Hobart early fast year as the lawyer with the Environmental Defenders Office. In the early '80s Lincoln represented the 1400...

Protecting our unprotected lands. (biological diversity in Australia) (includes related articles on conservation for private land and off-reserve communities)
April 1, 1997... Australia is unique among wealthy nations, as it possesses a major portion of the world's biological diversity and supports a significant number of species found nowhere else on the planet. But Australia has a problem. We are steadily losing our...

Burying the blue revolution. (consequences of increased marine aquaculture)
April 1, 1997... Hailed as the blue revolution, the marine aquaculture industry promises us a supply of seafood that will remove our dependence on wild fish populations. But as Darryl Luscombe reports, every revolution has its price. In May 1996 the tuna...

Caring for oceans: the new frontier.
April 1, 1997... With the emergence of marine environmental problems, and changes in jurisdictional responsibilities, national governments have been forced to consider the development of ocean policies. Some years ago, when national jurisdictions were limited...

Budget rituals. (Australian Conservation Foundation proposals)
April 1, 1997... The annual federal budget ritual is on again, and ACF has presented its fourth budget submission to the federal government, hoping to influence the allocation of funds to environmental protection. In 1996-97, the federal government...

Wasting national parks. (uranium mining on public land)
April 1, 1997... The majority of Australians believes that no new uranium mines should be established. Many Aboriginal people who live in the vicinity of prospective uranium deposits are opposed to new mines opening on their land. International opponents of...

False economy: poverty from unsustainable development.
April 1, 1997... It's April. Morning. I'm standing in 40 [degrees]C heat, staring at a baobab tree. Thorn bushes are the only other vegetation in a bare, beautiful but damaged landscape. This is Sahel country, south of the Sahara and in the north of...