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Habitat Australia articles from June 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 June 1997
Oceans: big blue looming? (Australia's adoption of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea)
June 1, 1997... By adopting the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Australia has declared responsibility for an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of surrounding seas and oceans nearly twice the area of the continent.
From Torres Strait to...
Sustainability: to be or not to be?
June 1, 1997... How wonderful it would be if public awareness of the environment meant the same thing as public understanding of it.
Everywhere in Australia the public, government and industry know that we must `look after the environment' but very few...
The Kimberley at the crossroads. (natural region in Australia) (includes related articles on ecological diversity and indigenous peoples)
June 1, 1997... Bigger than Tasmania and Victoria put together, the Kimberley covers nearly 412,000 square kilometres of Australia's vast north-west. Its diverse landscapes encompass desert, savanna plains, dramatic ranges and escarpments, rainforests,...
World-class forests vs world-scale woodchipping. (Australian rainforests) (includes related article on the Regional Forest Agreement in Tasmania, Australia)
June 1, 1997... On one side are Australia's greatest tracts of temperate rainforest, the tallest forests in the Southern Hemisphere, one of the world's great temperate wilderness areas, and endangered wildlife and woodlands.
On the other side are die...
Central America's struggle for sustainability. (El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua)
June 1, 1997... Nicaragua: strengthened role for grass-roots initiatives
When the revolutionary Sandinista government wrested power from General Somoza in Nicaragua, it replaced his ruthless dictatorship with a system of participatory democracy. The new...
Slow Reckoning: The Ecology of a Divided Planet.
June 1, 1997... Slow reckoning begins with a 1991 quote from Jacques Attali, the founding President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development:
`In the coming world order, there win be winners and there will be losers. The losers will...
The dead heart of the Wik backlash. (grazing sheep and cattle in Australia)
June 1, 1997... Close to half of the Australian continent -- the vast savannas of Cape York Peninsula, the braided rivers of the channel country, the ancient plateaux of the Kimberley, the arid dunefields of the red deserts, the mulga lands, Gulf country,...
Gathering numbers against uranium.
June 1, 1997... Alice Springs was recently the venue for a significant gathering between Aboriginal representatives and environment and anti-nuclear activists to discuss the threats posed by uranium mining.
As the uranium mining industry increases its...