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New Report on Australian Rangelands
Posted by jennifer, December 18th, 2008 - under Books, Community, News.
Tags: Rangelands
Comments: none
The rangelands cover some 81% of Australia and are popularly known as ‘the outback’.
A new report, ‘Rangelands 2008 — Taking the pulse’, is the first time that disparate datasets have been brought together at a national and regional scale to report change in Australia’s rangelands.
The hard copy version of Rangelands 2008 — Taking the pulse [...]
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Shooting Roos to Save Rangelands? by Nichole Hoskin
Posted by Nichole Hoskin, June 13th, 2008 - under Opinion.
Tags: Kangaroos, Plants and Animals, Rangelands
Comments: 50
There are claims that the presence of too many sheep, cattle and kangaroos are damaging Australia’s rangelands and that commercial shooting of kangaroos will reduce overall grazing pressure.
In an article published today at On Line Opinion entitled ‘Kangaroo: Designed for our Times’ by Executive Officer of the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia, John Kelly, he [...]
Carbon Trading Blocked until Farmers get Credits: Steve Truman
Posted by jennifer, February 25th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear, Food & Farming, Rangelands
Comments: 16
“It had been the previous [Australian] coalition governments intention and by default the Rudd governments plan to meet it’s commitments to limit the nation’s Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2008-2012 to the Kyoto Target of an 8% increase above the levels achieved in 1990, by using these accumulated credits [from bans on landclearing] without paying [...]
Monaro Farmer Seeks Compensation for Carbon Sink
Posted by jennifer, December 28th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Food & Farming, Legislation, Rangelands
Comments: 16
In the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney on Thursday 20th December 2007, the Court rejected the Commonwealth’s application to strike out a Statement of Claim entered into the Court by Monaro District farmer Mr Peter Spencer.
Mr Spencer has claimed that Intergovernmental Agreements between the Commonwealth and the States and Territories, along with the [...]
New Future for the Last Great Savanna: A Note from Luke Walker
Posted by Luke Walker, August 16th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Rangelands
Comments: 6
A new report The Nature of Northern Australia** advocates responsible conservation and development of one of the world’s great ecological treasures – the northern Australian tropical savanna. This vast area represents some 25% of the world’s remaining tropical savanna woodlands and is still in good ecological condition, some 1.5 million km2 extending from Cairns and [...]
Government Misrepresents Extent of Land Clearing: A Note from Ian Mott
Posted by Ian Mott, July 22nd, 2007 - under Opinion.
Tags: Rangelands, Weeds & Ferals
Comments: 5
The latest satellite (SLATS) data on Queensland clearing is now available and it provides an interesting insight into how data can be presented in a way that is quite remote from the truth on the ground. The report, Landcover Change in Queensland 2004-2005 can be seen at www.nrw.qld.gov.au/slats
The annual average area cleared in the [...]
Farmers in Court for Carbon Credit Compensation
Posted by jennifer, June 21st, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Rangelands
Comments: 13
“The Commonwealth [of Australia] has failed in an attempt to have a compensation claim by farmers fighting land clearing regulations dismissed.
“The group known as the Commonwealth Property Protection Association has filed a claim against the Commonwealth for compensation for lost carbon credits because of land clearing restrictions.
“The hearing will resume on July 19…
Read a bit [...]
Queensland Scrub Sold for Carbon: A Note from Tom Marland
Posted by jennifer, May 29th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Economics, Rangelands
Comments: 38
Hi Jennifer,
You may have read on the front page of Courier Mail on Saturday the article about Queensland’s First Carbon Farmer, Peter Allen.
Here is the link:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,21794589-952,00.html?from=public_rss
The project was the first avoided deforestation project of its kind in Australia and one of the biggest in the world.
The project secured 12,000 hectares of vegetation which was eligible [...]
Queensland Government Investigated Over Tree Clearing Case
Posted by jennifer, March 2nd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Rangelands, Weeds & Ferals
Comments: 19
I was pleased and surprised to read today at Farm Online that the actions of six Queensland Government employees is being investigated over the Ashley McKay saga.
I detailed the sorry story in a piece at this blog entitled ‘Tree Clearing in Queensland: One Man’s Battle Against Bureaucracy’ posted in October 2005.
It began: “About six years [...]
Counting Trees in Australia for Greenhouse Accounting
Posted by jennifer, January 19th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Forestry, Rangelands
Comments: 20
The National Greenhouse Accounts and Land Clearing: Do the numbers stack up?
by Andrew Macintosh, at The Australia Institute,
published January 2007.
Australia’s capacity to meet its Kyoto target is contingent on a reduction in emissions from land clearing. Government projections indicate that if land use change emissions are at their 1990 levels in 2010, Australia’s total emissions [...]

