World Heritage sites in Australia have often been born out of battles between conservationists and development-oriented state governments. Little regard has been paid to land owners: until now.
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Road traffic is a threat to Tasmania’s few health devils – increased truck traffic in the Tarkine won’t help.
Rhys Allen
Just a week before Christmas, Environment Minister Tony Burke approved Shree Minerals’ mine near Temma in the Tarkine region of north-west Tasmania. Perhaps he hoped the announcement would get lost in…
Research is clear on the value of the Tarkine’s rainforest, but does it matter to human society?
Rob Blakers
In Australia, we ride on the open cut mine’s back.
In the island state of Tasmania, there is a medium size-class open cut mine (928 hectares) with 210 hectares of settling ponds, from which iron nodules…
A bund wall surrounds the Fishermans Landing Wharf expansion in Gladstone.
AAP/Dave Hunt
The sealing of a leak of dredge spoil (harbour-bottom scooped up and dumped in a landfill area) in a bund wall in Gladstone harbour was announced on 25th of June by the Gladstone Ports Corporation. Scientists…
The push for World Heritage has noble aims, but when an area is already so well protected, why re-open debate?
AAP
Long-time environmental campaigner Geoff Mosley and former leader of the Greens Bob Brown will host a forum in Hobart on 17 June to discuss their proposal to seek World Heritage listing for Antarctica…
Minister Tony Burke is slowing down coal development in Queensland, but there’s more to it than saving turtles.
Landfeldt/Flickr
The halt in the Alpha Coal Project approval process shows the Commonwealth is taking very seriously UNESCO’s recent report threatening downgrading the status of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area…
Can a booming coal industry and a Heritage-Listed reef co-exist?
AAP/Dave Hunt
Last Friday the World Heritage Centre and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released a report on the state of the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest World Heritage Property…
