Tag Archives: land clearing

Games can be ‘game changers’ to break deadlock of stalled eco-policy debate says research paper

Posted on May 31, 2020 by rosslynbeeby

Board games designed to breakdown stubbornly entrenched roles and conflicts over conservation issues such as climate change and land clearing can break deadlocks and drive urgently-needed policy change, according to a journal paper by 23 researchers from 13 countries in … Continue reading →

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Australia’s trapdoor spider decline may be due to habitat loss & climate

Posted on December 29, 2016 by rosslynbeeby

Trapdoor spiders are rapidly disappearing across areas of southern and western Australia, possibly due to land clearing and the impacts of climate change,  according to a study based on more than 60 years of data. A group of eight scientists, … Continue reading →

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Australian country council wants to clear wildlife habitat to “cut” city’s carbon emissions

Posted on November 15, 2016 by rosslynbeeby

An Australian regional council is claiming climate change is one of the reasons it needs to build a high speed road link that will destroy almost 20 hectares of endangered eucalypt woodland that provides habitat for around 114 species of … Continue reading →

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Land clearing kill count for Liverpool plains coal mine should shame threatened species summit

Posted on July 15, 2015 by rosslynbeeby

Will anyone have the courage to confront Australia’s environment minister Greg Hunt at the government’s Threatened Species Summit in Melbourne tomorrow? Or will the hand-picked participants play along with the charade, and pretend that the massive Shenhua Watermark coal mine … Continue reading →

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Land clearing for Shenhua coal mine makes a mockery of federal threatened species summit

Posted on July 13, 2015 by rosslynbeeby

Is there really any point to this week’s federal threatened species summit in Melbourne? And will anyone attending have the courage to challenge the government over the environmental impacts of the massive Shenhua Watermark coal mine, or will Thursday’s summit … Continue reading →

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Lazy reporting fails to ask what government will do to halt decline of Canberra’s scarlet robin

Posted on May 25, 2015 by rosslynbeeby

How does a once-common species disappear? In Canberra last week, the ACT government announced it was listing the scarlet robin (Petroica multicolour) as vulnerable, which is basically a throat-clearing formal acknowledgement of the bird’s decline. It was a brief statement … Continue reading →

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