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Habitat Australia articles from February 1997
A magazine devoted to achieving a healthy environment for all Australians. Reports on Australian environmental issues, including conservation and ecologically sustainable alternatives to current industry and consumer practices. This is the membership publ
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Habitat Australia archives from February 1997
Working for the earth. (Earth Works program in New South Wales, Australia)
February 1, 1997... Waste is fast becoming one of the major environmental issues of the 1990s. With many Australian cities running out of landfill space there is an urgent need for waste reduction. The Earth Works program is a positive response to this crisis....
APEC: fast-track or logjam? (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leader's Summit)
February 1, 1997... Each year, somewhere in the Pacific region, a country plays host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Summit In 1996 it was the turn of the Philippines. Anna Reynolds and Mark Horstman attended the Manila People's Forum, an...
Digging up trouble. (mining activity in Australia)
February 1, 1997... Australia areas of high conservation value are under attack from Australia governments and the mining industry. In this special Habitat supplement, Helen Rosenbaum reveals that in every Australian state current and proposed mining activities pose...
Deadly desert dust. (uranium mining operations in Western Australia)
February 1, 1997... In a remote part of Western Australia, a `David and Goliath' struggle is taking place between Aboriginal people, environmentalists and the world's largest mining company RTZ-CRA.
Rudall River National Park (Karlamilyi), about 500...
New line on recycling. (project supported by the Australian Conservation Foundation)
February 1, 1997... The virtues of recycling have recently been challenged in the media, with some critics claiming that recycling schemes are often poorly designed, too costly and wasteful of energy. Contractors have found that the collection cost of certain...
In defence of Dominica. (mining operations in the eastern Caribbean)
February 1, 1997... Until twelve months ago, few citizens of Dominica had ever heard of BHP, Australia's largest mining company and one of the world's largest copper producers. Now they fear that the company will replicate in Dominica the destruction of ecology and...
New directions for environmental policy. (Australian Conservation Federation influence on national policy)
February 1, 1997... ACF is developing an important series devoted to the discussion of new directions for environmental policy in Australia. The aim of the series is to contribute to the changes in thinking needed to move to an ecologically sustainable economy...
ACF's next 30 years. (Australian Conservation Foundation)
February 1, 1997... After reviewing the nature of the foundation's work over the last 30 years, and examining the options for the future, the ACF Council has decided to expand ACF's role in the future and endeavour to help society achieve a harmonious...
Fisher folk fight back. (Phuket Island, Thailand)
February 1, 1997... The village of Ao Goong is a side of Phuket Island that few tourists to southern Thailand encounter. Yet their appetite for the large, succulent tiger prawns is one of the reasons why the future of the `Bay of Prawns', as the village's name...