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Habitat Australia articles from October 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 October 1997
Liquid gold: Australia's wetland wealth.
October 1, 1997... It is late August. A flock of red knots is nearing the end of an 11,000-kilometre journey. These small migratory shorebirds have flown from the Arctic Circle, across eastern Asia and down through the Indonesian archipelago. their destination:...
Wildlife trade route to extinction.
October 1, 1997... Wildlife in Australia does need a new deal, but achieving the national and global recognition of such intrinsic rights is becoming increasingly difficult in a world driven by economic rationalism. As noted by Dr Heather Aslin, in the Human...
Jabiluka: no time to waste. (Australian region, location of uranium deposits)
October 1, 1997... Uranium mining has long been a concern to environment groups because of both the impact of mining and the hazardous nature of the product. The generation of nuclear electricity is one of the most costly, complicated and dangerous industrial...
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the last 13,000 Years.
October 1, 1997... Jared Diamond obligingly summarises his nearly 500-page book in one sentence:
`History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among people's environments, not because of biological differences among...