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Footprints Running Camp
Rather than despairing about the state of our planet, a small group of motivated runners with a deep passion for wild places have launched a new climate leadership camp in Australia.
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Tasmania’s Forests – A Climate Solution
A recent report found that native forest logging is the highest greenhouse gas emitting sector in Tasmania. However, writes Dr Jennifer Sanger, protecting native forests would draw carbon dioxide down from the atmosphere and store it long-term, in turn offering a real climate solution.
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Keep It Wild
A new website called Keep-It-Wild.org will shine a spotlight on the numerous luxury accommodation developments being proposed within national parks across the country.
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Lake Pedder by Bob Brown
2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the shameful and tragic drowning of Lake Pedder.
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Western Australias northern jarrah forests
The ongoing expansion of bauxite mining in Western Australia threatens both the environment and numerous bushwalking routes.
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What Wilderness Means
To protect wilderness, you first have to know what wilderness is. But pinning down the concept to create a workable definition can prove surprisingly difficult. In this must-read piece, wilderness researchers Martin Hawes and Grant Dixon explain the theory, and offer a robust solution.
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Luxury Lodges Means Wilderness Lost – Part 2
Our national parks are under attack. The push for luxury lodges and other within-park accommodation, has gained nationwide momentum. In this, Part Two of a two-part series, we look at the root causes and broad implications of these developments.
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Running For the Pilliga
To raise awareness for the plight of the spectacular Pilliga forest, under threat from Santos’s disastrous plans to mine coal seam gas, the Wilderness Society has partnered with For Wild Places to launch the Pilliga Ultra.
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A Call For Bush Regeneration
In the wake of the pandemic, there lies an opportunity to make meaningful change.
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Luxury Lodges Means Wilderness Lost
Our national parks are under attack. Privatisation, in the form of luxury lodges and other accommodation for walkers, has gained nationwide momentum. In this, Part I of a two-part series, we look at breadth of the problem across the country.
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Forestry Watch
Science for the people; a fledgling grass-roots group holds Tasmanian loggers to account.
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Act to save the environment
Australia’s horrendous Environment Condition Score of 0.8 out of 10 underscores the urgent need for public to take advantage of their once-in-a-decade opportunity to comment on the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
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From the cradle to the grave
A love story helped create one of Australia’s most famous national parks: Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Park.
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The Battle for the Franklin
The greatest environmental battle in Australian history was also its greatest act of civil disobedience. But the story of saving the Franklin runs far longer, and involves far more people, than its best remembered element, the blockade.
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Lake Pedder The New Movement: Restoration
The fight for Lake Pedder is ongoing. From protection to restoration. Read on to see how you can help.
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World Expeditions add its weight to fight against wildlife cruelty in tourism
World Expeditions to support the end of wildlife suffering for tourist purposes.
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Toilet Talk
The business of ‘doing business’ in the bush. Russell Brown on the yay and nay when it comes to outdoor toilet etiquette.
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Dreaming of a career as an Australian park ranger?
Many people are familiar with the beauty of Australia’s vast, rugged parks and reserves. But have you ever considered working as a park ranger?
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11yo ‘eco-warrior’ receives government grant to fight litter
A young environmentalist from Lake Cathie, NSW, is taking on the world’s plastic waste problems, one confident step at a time.
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Wild and wilder: The Nature Conservancy’s 2017 Photo Competition
Amazing shots of wildlife and wilderness abound among The Nature Conservancy’s 2017 Photo Competition winners and runners up entries.
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Wet Tropics “Snap the Tropics” 2017 Photo Competition
The Wet Tropics Management Authority is pleased to announce its Snap the Tropics photograph competition winners. The competition attracted more than 150 entries from local photographers across the Wet Tropics region, featuring everything from creek and waterfall scenes to cassowary and orchid snaps. Entries were independently judged by acclaimed Cairns nature photographer Mike Prociv. The Read More
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10 Pieces: Fighting plastic pollution in the Himalaya
Mountaineer Tim Macartney-Snape explains another kind of pioneering effort: to take on plastic litter in Nepal and beyond.
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Concerns raised for logging plans in NSW State Forest
News of logging activities in nearby State Parks is causing local residents to take notice and action against the destruction of critical native habitat.
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Call to protect culturally significant ‘brumbies’
Former Monaro MP and horseman Peter Cochran is calling for feral horses in the Snowy Mountains to receive protected status.
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Adani gives the nod for megamine
In the ongoing saga to break ground on the $21 billion Carmichael coal mine, the Adani board has given the ‘green light’ for the project to go ahead.
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Half of platypus population destroyed by yabby nets
Declining platypus populations have caused researchers to raise the alarm, but figuring out how direthe problem is – or how to solve it – isn’t going to be simple.
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Tasmania’s walking clubs divided by South Coast Track proposal
Bob Brown says it’s a “nightmare come true”, but some of Tasmania’s walking club members believe private development in National Parks is inevitable, such as the private hut development proposed for the South Coast Track.
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Joyce threatens Leadbeater’s possum and Great Forest NP plans
This Monday, it was revealed that deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce had asked the environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, to reconsider the protected status of the Leadbeater’s possum. Risking Victoria’s faunal emblem to extinction is a move Joyce has made in an attempt to save the Heyfield timber mill. Joyce went on to say in parliament Read More
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Murray’s native turtles ‘extinct by end of century’ expert says
Without intervention, freshwater turtles in the Murray River could become extinct in our lifetime. An estimated 40 percent of turtle species from around the world are threatened with extinction, making them one of the most vulnerable groups on Earth. Now, research scientist Dr Ricky Spencer believes those freshwater species found in the Murray River are disappearing Read More