UN Climate Change Conference - Poznan, Poland
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From 1 December, world leaders meet in Poland to discuss the most important challenge ever faced by humanity - tackling climate change. The Poznan climate negotiations will begin the process of setting climate change emissions targets for all countries, including for the first time the United States and Australia - and what measures can be used to meet those targets, starting from 2013. The first major step since the climate forum in Bali last year, the Wilderness Society delegation will be urging world leaders to take strong action to reduce logging and land clearing - as part of the global plan to tackle climate change. |
Pulp Mill update
Controversial Logs Deal Adds to Pulp Mill Uncertainty
On 1 December 2008, Gunns announced that it had been given a two-year extension on its wood-supply deal for the pulp mill.
In extending the terms of the agreement, Forestry Tasmania has stepped over Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett’s line in the sand and threatened vast tracts of publicly-owned native forest in Tasmania.
The Kimberley
WA’s unique Kimberley region is now the focus of major conservation concern. Plans for massive industrialisation by fossil fuel giants such as Shell and Woodside could cause irreversible damage to this remote and unspoiled region.
With your support we can persuade the development-hungry new WA government to adopt a sustainable plan for the Kimberley.
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Focus: Native forest research
Research finds native forests key to climate solution.
World-first research from the Australian National University has shown that unlogged native forests store three times more carbon than previously thought.
The research identifies that Australia has some of the most carbon dense forests on Earth - and that logging and clearing them has significant climate implications.
Upcoming Events
- Join the new Wilderness Activist Collective - WA
- Forever Wild Bequest event - Adelaide, 7th December, 2008
- WildEndurance, 2/3 May 2009
5.30pm, every Tuesday. The Wilderness Activist Collective holds weekly meetings with guest speakers, training workshops, creative activity nights, and films - it's a great way to meet other activists, share skills and help protect our State's most amazing wild places! Carpark off Troode St. West Perth
1pm - 4pm, Sunday, 7th December, 2008. Ayers House, Henry Ayers Room, 288 North Terrace, Adelaide, SA. The Wilderness Society invites you to our Forever Wild bequest event in Adelaide for 2008, for an insight into our WildCountry vision, an update on local campaigns in South Australia, and a photo exhibition of the amazingly diverse Australian landscapes we campaign to protect followed by afternoon tea.
WildEndurance: the new standard. 100km through the Blue Mountains in one weekend, raising funds to save the planet. Find out how to register!
Media Releases
- Wood supply deal clears way for pulping of native forest and eucalypt species - December 02, 2008
- Mining companies must reveal water plans for the Wenlock - December 01, 2008
- Wood supply deal confirms controversial native forest feedstock for pulp mill - December 01, 2008
Unless the newly-extended wood-supply deal for the pulp mill has been secretly amended, it paves the way for pulping of specialty timber species such as myrtle, blackwood, sassafras, wattle and most Tasmanian eucalypt species, according to the Wilderness Society.
The Wilderness Society calls on bauxite mining companies Rio Tinto and Cape Alumina to come clean about their water plans for the wild Wenlock River on Cape York Peninsula. TWS is concerned that the companies have been seeking special exemptions from the Queensland Government’s Wild River protection policies for the river before nomination plans have even been released.
The extension of the controversial native forest-based wood supply deal for Gunns’ pulp mill increases the uncertainty of the mill by locking in dependence on a highly controversial resource that promises decades of public protest over forest exploitation in Tasmania.
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