Habitat Australia articles from August 1999

Habitat Australia archives from August 1999

green VIEWS.
August 1, 1999... The Lucky Winners ACF's Raffle to Save the Reef was drawn 12.00 noon 4 June, 1999. Thank you to those who participated in ACF's latest raffle. Your help is invaluable and strengthens our campaigning. The lucky prizewinners are: ...

campaign TRAILS.
August 1, 1999... Rivers Campaign ACF puts Queensland under water pressure ACF's campaign against subsidised dam construction in Queensland has achieved a major win through the National Competition Council. Under the nationally agreed Water...

Australia's new environment laws -- Questions and Answers.
August 1, 1999... It is unacceptable to devolve or delegate approval powers relating to matters of national environmental significance, particularly given the Commonwealth's responsibility for meeting Australia's obligations under international environmental...

Small change makes a big difference.(Australian Conservation Foundation, Earthfund)
August 1, 1999... Earthfund has become an essential source of funding for ACF's campaigns. Rebecca Kaye explains how you can get involved. WHEN FINALISING our campaign budgets in June 1998, ACF could not have predicted that within a few months a major debate...

OIL AND WHALES DON'T MIX.
August 1, 1999... The cliffs at the edge of the Great Australian Bight Marine Protected Area are a regular visiting spot for the southern right whale. But while tourists flock here to see the sight of these leviathans calving, a new threat is looming on the...

Green bans, red union.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Environmental activism and the New South Wales Builders Labuorers' Federation Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann, University of New South Wales Press 1998 RRP $29.95 AFTER FIVE YEARS `political and social embroilment' with the NSW...

consuming CHOICES.
August 1, 1999... How to deal with two essential elements -- fire and water -- are brought up by readers this month. Up in smoke ACF member Colin Smith from Melbourne called the Habitat office with a query about firewood. I have just put a slow...

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS: LIFE ON THE ISLANDS.(includes related article on Port Hinchinbrook)(Queensland)
August 1, 1999... Under the open blue skies of a December morning a small group of people are eagerly boarding a waiting boat in the small, North Queensland town of Cardwell. Among them is Liz Downes, who is about to take part in the annual nutmeg pigeon count...

Who'll pay this bill?(Regional Forests Agreement Bill 1998, Australia)
August 1, 1999... It is only a small bill, just eight sections. This small bill however, threatens to lock Australian taxpayers into 20-year compensation commitments being made under the discredited regional forest agreement that process is currently sweeping...

An early bird.(Heather Graham, member of the Australian Conservation Foundation)
August 1, 1999... Heather Graham has been a member of ACF since 1968 and, 31 years later, continues to be actively involved. BORN IN THE industrial town of Port Pirie in South Australia, Heather developed her love of botany and bird watching during family...

Membership milestones: 31+.
August 1, 1999... ACF would like to sincerely thank and congratulate the following people who, at the end of June 1999, have had continuous membership of ACF for thirty-one years or more. ACF's strength today is a credit to their unwavering support. Mr J...

GETTING ON TRACK the biodiversity challenge.(includes related article)
August 1, 1999... the biodiversity challenge Australia is one of the key centres of life. Nearly 10 per cent of the Earth's animal, plant and microbe species live here and, in most cases, only here. Yet, as we race into the next century, most Australians...