Australia

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2013

• Say no to corporate power grab: Reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

2009

• Australia: Concern over plantations swept under the carpet by environmental movement

2008

• Australia/Tasmania: Deal favours Gunns’ pulp mill project despite popular opposition

2007

• Australia: The many subsidies enjoyed by Gunns in Tasmania

2002

• Australia: Tree plantations grabbing thriving forests

• Australia: Tasmanian farms which fed people replaced by farms which feed woodchip mills

• Australia: Joint Submission against tree plantation scheme in Tasmania

2001

• Australian carbon sinks: good for investors, bad for the environment

2000

• National Forest Summit condemns “Australian forestry standard”

• Australia: Woodchipping old growth forests for “renewable energy”

• Australia: Plantations, plantations and still more plantations…

• Australia: “carbon sink” plantations invade Tasmania

1999

• US multinationals buy up Australian plantations at the expense of native forests

• Networking in action: Australia-Uruguay

• Japanese carbon garbage dumps in Australia

• Australian NGOs do not support Minister Tuckey’s intiatitive.

1998

• Growing concern over plantations in Australia

1997

• Australia: Eucalyptus natural forests under threat

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  Australia – WRM information sheet on GE tree research

  Posted on August 17, 2008

  WRM information sheets on GE tree research First posted: 1st August 2008 Last update: August 2014 Tree species being manipulated: eucalyptus Aim of genetic manipulation faster growth (2) improved wood quality (2) sterility (2) Those...

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  Status of Implementation of Forest-Related Clauses in the CBD: An Independent Review & Recommendations for Action

  Posted on March 18, 2002

  Commissioned by the Global Forest Coalition This report is based on 21 country case studies, including Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech republic, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya,Malaysia, the Netherlands, New...

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