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Biodiversity a crucial climate change buffer for ecosystem and cultural diversity

Submitted by takver on Wed, 18/01/2012 - 2:03pm

A new multi-author scientific study says that preservation of plant biodiversity provides a crucial buffer to negative effects of climate change and desertification in drylands. Preventing ecosystem degredation in a warming world is significant with drylands particularly vulnerable to environmental changes and desertification. Dryland ecosystems cover 41% of the land surface of the Earth and support 38% of the human population.

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Our sincere apologies, Prime Minister: Commentary by Paul Watson

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/01/2012 - 8:19pm

Our apologies, Prime Minister. I’m sorry we were not racing around the world trying to establish a world record on a ten million dollar sailing vessel that was wrecked by a storm.

I’m sorry we were not a Russian poaching vessel stealing Patagonia toothfish from the waters off the coast of Antarctica where we breached our hull and needed your help.

I’m sorry that we are not an eco-tourist vessel grounded on the beach of Antarctica in need of your assistance.

Unfortunately we’re not setting world records, poaching fish or gawking at penguins.

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STATEMENT: Three WA forest crew detained on Japanese whaler in Australian waters

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/01/2012 - 1:25pm

Statement from Forest Rescue

We have come from the forests of Australia to defend the whales being slaughtered in Australian territorial waters.

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Forest Rescue will protect Warrup at all costs - hero activists from the forests, to the Kimberley, to the seas

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 08/01/2012 - 6:34pm

Forest Rescue will protect Warrup at all costs

(south west newspaper article)

Gerry Georgatos

Bridgetown-Greenbushes Friends of the Forest (BGFF) have long warned that Warrup is in danger of being imminently logged. Conservation groups state wide have committed to protecting Warrup at all costs, even if it means arrests.

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Forest Rescue activists board Japanese whaling ship in solidarity with Sea Shepherd

Submitted by takver on Sun, 08/01/2012 - 5:32pm

In the early hours of Sunday, January 8, three forest rescue activists boarded the Japanese whaling fleet security vessel Shonan Maru No 2 off Bunbury, Western Australia as an act of solidarity with Sea Shepherd in their campaign to stop Japanese commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. While in the Antarctic Sea Shepherd activists from the Bob Barker continue to pursue and harass the main whaling fleet.

Related: Sea Shepherd Media Release - Three Australian prisoners detained on a Japanese whaler in Australian waters | Captain Paul Watson on Forest Rescue men go out on a limb for Sea Shepherd

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Three Australian prisoners detained on a Japanese whaler in Australian waters

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 08/01/2012 - 9:45am

Sea Shepherd Press Release Jan 7th 2012 Early this morning The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society assisted Forest Rescue Australia in a complex and daring move to board the Shonan Maru #2 in waters off Bunbury, Western Australia

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Species biodiversity under threat from the velocity of climate change

Submitted by takver on Wed, 04/01/2012 - 3:21am

Scientists have been able to calculate the velocity of climate change on land and ocean environments using temperature records to determine isotherms and their change in a fifty year period from 1960 to 2009. So how fast are climate envelopes moving? The general median answer is 27.3 km/decade on land, and 21.7 km/decade in the ocean. This equates to a speed needed to outrun climate change on land (2.7 kilometers per year) and in the oceans (2.2 kilometers per year). This rate of movement of thermal climate envelopes poses problems for species facing a high speed migration, or a difficult and abrupt adaptation or extinction.

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WGAR News: Wrapping up 2011; New Aboriginal Tent Embassy 40th anniversary website

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 28/12/2011 - 2:25pm

Newsletter date: 28 December 2011

Contents:
* New Aboriginal Tent Embassy 40th anniversary website
* Interview with activist Darren Bloomfield from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
* Michael Anderson: Govt gives ultimatums to NAIDOC not to use 40th anniversary
* SBS Radio Living Black: WA Indigenous Affairs Minister clears the way for mining mate
* Dianne Stokes speaks at Hot Politics-Radioactive waste management in Australia
* Interview with Chris Graham wrapping up the year’s events
* SBS World News Australia: 2011 in review - The NT intervention

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Interview with activist Darren Bloomfield from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Michael Anderson - Govt gives ultimatums to NAIDOC not to use 40th anniversary

SBS Radio Living Black - WA Indigenous Affairs Minister clears the way for mining mate

Dianne Stokes speaks at Hot Politics-Radioactive waste management in Australia

Interview with Chris Graham wrapping up the year’s events

SBS World News Australia - 2011 in review - The NT intervention

ANTaR Action - School attendance and Centrelink payment suspension in the NT

Greens Rachel Siewert - Negative SEAM evaluations must trigger NT Intervention re-think

Michael Brull - 2012 or 1912? Stigmatising and humiliating Aboriginal parents

Interview with Jon Altman on the future of the NTER in the Northern Territory

Jon Altman - Reforming the Native Title Act

ANTaR - Time to modernise our Constitution

Broome Seagrass Monitoring in January 2012

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 24/12/2011 - 10:40pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 26/01/2012 - 5:30am to Sat, 28/01/2012 - 9:30am

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Roebuck Bay, Broome, Western Australia

Contact Phone:

9192 1922

Contact Email:

seagrass@environskimberley.org.au

Website:

www.environskimberley.org.au

Come along and explore the fascinating world of seagrass and be part of a global scientific seagrass monitoring program!

Thursday, 26th - meet at the Port Slipway at 5:30am
Friday, 27th - meet at Demco car park at 5:30am
Saturday, 28th - meet at Town Beach car park at 6:45am

All welcome and no previous experience neccessary! Bring along a hat, water bottle and closed shoes (they'll get muddy) and join us out on the mudflats of Roebuck Bay!

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Leonora Convergence for Refugee Rights

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 24/12/2011 - 10:16pm

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Thu, 26/01/2012 - 9:00am to Sun, 29/01/2012 - 4:00pm

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East Perth Train Staion

Website:

http://rran.org/leonora/register/

In January, Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN) will be heading to Leonora Detention Centre to protest the detention of unaccompanied boys aged 14-17.

Already traumatised and used as political pawns, these young people are treated as criminals and detained indefinitely in a system that a spokesperson from the Australian Medical Association has called 'a toxic environment', and the federal government's own Detention Health Advisory Group said that "To expose children and minors to these environments really can only be seen as a form of state-sponsored child abuse,"

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