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Mar 05

The Forest Rescue Station kota or teepee, where activists have camped since March 2. Enlarge image

Greetings from the Reindeer Forest

This is not Tasmania’s Styx Valley ancient forest. Instead of eucalyptus leaves covering the forest floor, the snow lies thick on the ground. The temperature reaches -30C in the colder months up to March. But there is one similarity.

Dugongs are critically endangered. Now their only Japanese home is threatened by military construction. Enlarge image

Save this dugong's home

On a sprawling coral reef off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, the shallow water extends two kilometres out to sea into a clear, emerald ocean. Okinawa's reef nurtures diverse marine life, including coral and anemone fish. One of the world's remaining dugong populations also lives here. The dugong is critically endangered.

A field of GM canola (rapeseed) in Germany. Enlarge image

Australian wildlife harmed like British birds?

It was the largest study ever done on the environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) crops. So why does the Australian Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) dismiss it as "irrelevant"?

Local landowners tried to stop RH from making the road, but were just ignored by the company. Enlarge image

Coalition tips balance in forestry debate

A coalition of non-government organisations (NGOs), union and civil society groups joined forces in Papua New Guinea (PNG) this week and called for the forestry minister to resign.

Petitioners for the Kyoto Protocol included residents of John Howard’s own seat of Bennelong (here at Parliament House). Enlarge image

22,000 sign up for the Kyoto Protocol

Thank you to everyone who enthusiastically signed our Kyoto Protocol petition to Prime Minister John Howard. Your energy-charged response saw 10,000 signing on in the first 24 hours! That number has grown to 22,561 in the month since we launched the petition, which coincided with the launch of the Kyoto Protocol (16 February, 2005).

Yum! Green eggs for Easter. Enlarge image

Green eggs and chooks

Just in time for Easter, Darrell Lea Chocolates has gone GE-free. Their chocolate eggs have achieved "green" status in our updated online True Food Guide to GE-free shopping. They join other companies committed to supplying products free of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients, from paddock to plate.

Hunter Valley coal Enlarge image

Government goes lite on emissions trading

Many Australians who voted for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd because he promised serious action on climate change will be very disappointed following the release of his government’s emissions trading Green Paper on 16 July.

Carbon Reduction proposal light on real action

July 16, 2008

Wednesday July 16, 2008: The Federal Government has capitulated to the vested interests of the greenhouse mafia by proposing an astoundingly weak Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme in its green paper released today, according to Greenpeace Climate and Energy Campaigner Simon Roz.

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