News Archive (01 May 2003 - 31 May 2003)
Vision, leadership and innovation needed to drive water reform
MOREE: A new national vision for sustainable water use is needed to drive substantial change in managing Australia's declining water resources, says WWF Australia.
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Reef water quality protection plan must introduce key reforms
BRISBANE: The Federal and State governments draft Reef Water Quality Protection Plan must set out an agenda of key reforms necessary to reduce threats to the Great Barrier Reef, says WWF Australia.
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Best science, economics will resolve deadlocked debate on land clearing
HOBART: A fresh approach to land management issues in Tasmania is needed to move debate beyond a stalemate of opposing opinions, WWF Australia President, business leader Rob Purves told a conference on land clearing in Hobart today.
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Proposed land clearing solution welcomed by environment groups
Environmentalists have supported the proposal outlined today by Federal Environment Minister David Kemp and Premier Peter Beattie to rapidly end broadscale clearing of remnant bushland in Queensland.
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Temporary hold on clearing a first step in securing tighter controls
CANBERRA: A temporary hold on land clearing applications in Queensland has been described by WWF Australia as a necessary brake on panic clearing of remnant native vegetation throughout the State.
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Top meteorologist keen to debate climate change link to drought
SYDNEY: Professor David Karoly, one of the authors of a WWF Australia scientific report linking the severity of the recent drought to human-induced global warming, has challenged NSW Farmers to debate the issue at a public forum next month.
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Public workshop will help protect Lockyer Valley rainforest remnants
BRISBANE: WWF Australia is organising a public workshop to help map and conserve threatened rainforest ecosystems in the Lockyer Valley, south west of Brisbane.
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