 The Nature Conservation Council, Conservation Council of the ACT Region, SERCA and a coalition of conservation groups have called for Premier Kristina Keneally to intervene in the battle over the future of the last koala colony in the South East Forests of NSW.
Earlier this month (March 2010) local conservationists reported that contrary to assurances from the Environment Minister Frank Sartor, heavy machinery is already at work on the road network needed for access to the area.
Despite a recent Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water survey finding a small but healthy colony of koalas living in Mumbulla State Forest, logging is set to resume as early as next week.
Please send this email to Premier Keneally and Ministers Sartor and Macdonald urging them to halt logging and protect this precious koala colony.
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 The Nature Conservation Council has condemned the State Government's approval of plans for new gas or coal-fired power stations at Mt Piper and Bayswater as "environmental negligence".
Giving the green light to burn even more coal is a disaster for the climate, with the potential to increase NSW's carbon emissions by 15 per cent. Even fuelling these power stations by gas will increase the state's emissions by seven per cent.
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 Marine parks are once again coming under the microscope and the fragile marine environment needs your support. An inquiry has been launched into recreational fishing in NSW.
Conducted by the NSW Legislative Council's Select Committee on Recreational Fishing, and chaired by the Shooters Party's Robert Brown, the inquiry will look at, among other issues, marine parks. Not allowing evidence to get in the way of a strongly held opinion, the Chair of the Committee dismisses the science behind marine parks as "voodoo science".
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 The Nature Conservation Council (NCC), with the generous support of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) is offering two placements for emerging leaders from within the environment movement in the Centre for Sustainability Leadership’s 2010 Fellowship Program.
Find out more about the two fully-funded places for this exciting environmental leadership program here .
Applications close Friday March 12, 2010.
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 South Africa
21 May - 9 June, 2010
We urgently need two more people for the tour to run!
The Shark Swim Challenge is a unique adventure for travellers wanting to test their courage and help save our last sharks.
Book now and we'll take up to $1000 off the fundraising target.
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 The NSW Government has reversed its decision for the immediate creation of new Red Gum National Parks along the Murray and other south-western rivers, recently announcing logging will continue in some areas for up to five years.
The move jeopardises the protection of globally significant wetlands and threatened species that are facing severe long-term threats to their survival.
The National Parks Association of NSW has indicated the decision will "not leave a forest worth protecting". (SMH, NSW to protect Riverina red gums, 02/03/10)
Click here to read a joint media release from the Nature Conservation Council and six other environmental groups on the decision . |
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Help save the South East forests of NSW from the furnace.
Up to 20 other forest burning furnaces are planned in Australia. We cannot allow our precious forest to go up in smoke for electricity. |
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