Habitat Australia articles from February 1998

Habitat Australia archives from February 1998

DESK DIARY.(conservation issues)
February 1, 1998... Items of interest that have landed on the Habitat desk. Help box-ironbark woodlands Australia's woodlands and grassy woodlands are under increasing threat from land clearing, overgrazing, tree dieback, weed invasion, dryland salinity,...

CAMPAIGN TRAILS.(environmental political activity)
February 1, 1998... An update on ACF's campaign activities Queensland dam proposals draw fire Last year the Queensland Minister for Natural Resources, Howard Hobbs, announced a major $1-billion initiative to subsidise the construction of new dams and...

Australia's downhill diplomacy at Kyoto Summit.
February 1, 1998... The Kyoto Climate Summit is over The Kyoto Protocol has been drafted. But as Peter Kinrade reports, there is little to cheer about after three years of negotiations. In the early hours of the morning of 11 December, in the Kyoto...

OK TEDI'S tarnished GOLD.(environmental and social aspects of mining)
February 1, 1998... In November last year I visited Western Province in Papua New Guinea, as Pacific Program Manager for the International Women's Development Agency. The area is downstream of BHP's controversial Ok Tedi gold and copper mine. From 1992 to...

WA forest showdown looms.
February 1, 1998... Conservation groups in Western Australia are refusing to participate in the state and federal governments' Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) process, labelling it as fundamentally flawed, biased and a fraud on the community. The strongest...

GLOBALISATION GONE MAD.
February 1, 1998... `Government by organised money is just as dangerous as government by organised mobs.' US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 The world's 29 richest industrialised nations are negotiating a treaty about foreign investment that...

GREEN GRANTS CUT IN NORTH.
February 1, 1998... The federal government's Grants to Voluntary Conservation Organisations (GVCO) program is in danger of reinforcing a north-south divide. Environment groups based in northern Australia are now receiving less than one-third of the funding to...

A WORKER FOR THE WILD.
February 1, 1998... `Saving the wild places for the wild things' is how Margi Prideaux, ACF's new Biodiversity Campaign Coordinator, has committed her life. And a quick scan of her CV shows it. She began her first work with the environment movement in 1993,...

ACF NABS NEW MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR.
February 1, 1998... So what is Marcus Godinho's bigger picture? ACF is set to find out because he has just been appointed as our new Membership Coordinator. Marcus comes to us from the National Australia Bank where, as the bank's Manager External Relations, he...

PLAYING POLITICS.
February 1, 1998... If you are finding it difficult to make sense of environmental politics, and are wanting to get more involved in environmental debate, then a soon-to-be published guide to federal parliament is what you need. The guide, Playing Politics,...

Think BILBY not bunny this Easter.
February 1, 1998... Chocolate bilbies are back in Coles supermarkets again this Easter, raising funds for bilby conservation projects around Australia. With the sale of each chocolate Bush Billy Bilby, Coles Supermarkets donates fifty cents to the Save the...

TICKETY-boo.
February 1, 1998... Twice a year ACF gives its members, supporters and the general public the chance to win some wonderful raffle prizes, including holidays to exotic locations. And even if our ticket-sellers and ticket buyers don't win, at least they know that...

NATIONAL AWARDS give volunteers a boost.
February 1, 1998... Twenty years ago it was just a rubbish dump polluting the surrounding waterways. Today, thanks to volunteers from the Coffs Harbour community, it is a brilliant herbarium surrounded by mangroves, swamp forest and rare and endangered plants. ...

MEAN GENE BEANS.
February 1, 1998... First the `green revolution', and now the `gene revolution', is promoted as the cure-alls for world hunger. Agribusiness may appear to deliver cheap food and fibre to Western consumers through global markets, but in fact the environmental,...

VICTORIA: Brown power in the brown-coal state.
February 1, 1998... The federal government has demonstrated its commitment to develop world's worst practice on greenhouse gas emissions. It is therefore pleasing to note the success of the New South Wales government's encouragement of electric companies and...

TASMANIA: Cargo cult alive and well.
February 1, 1998... cargo cult (originally in the Pacific Islands): a belief in the forthcoming arrival of supernatural benefactors. The Oceanport proposal for the construction of an international cruise liner complex and associated facilities at Princes Wharf...

NEW SOUTH WALES: Flushing money into the system.
February 1, 1998... The controversial $375 million sewer overflow tunnel (see December 1997 Habitat) has been given the go-ahead despite the majority view of a parliamentary select committee that it is a waste of money. It will do little to achieve the goal of...