CLIMATE ACTION SHOW

SEPTEMBER 11th - 2023

PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORD

SAVING FORESTS IS CLIMATE ACTION

Immediate protection of Australia’s native forests is one of the most effective ways to tackle climate and biodiversity crises. Our Federal government could do it. NZ has banned Native forest logging since 2002.

Guests:

Mark Graham -  Meet the team: Mark Graham, ecologist — The White Bluff Project(link is external)

Dorothee Babeck - Bob Brown Foundation Campaigner NSW End Native Forest Logging Now - Bob Brown Foundation Open letter Please sign

Sue Higginson - MLC NSW Parliament. Former CEO of Environment Defenders Office

Saving Forests is Climate Action - Sue Higginson MLC(link is external)

“I have been on the frontline of forest defence myself and I have represented countless other forest defenders through the courts as they seek to protect the environment from senseless destruction.

NSW has the highest rates of extinction in the country and the Forestry Corporation is directly driving these extinctions through destruction of habitat in forests that are either struggling to recover from the 2019/20 bushfires or are the last remaining unburnt areas in the landscape."

Dr Kim Loo - Doctors for the Environment ABC: Scientists say WA government’s prescribed burns targets have no scientific basis - DEA

Chats for Change Episode One: Can Trees Save Us? | WWF-Australia | Chats for Change Episode One: Can Trees Save Us? | WWF Australia

Senator Dr.Mehreen Faruqui - Green Party Federal Government- Animal Welfare Portfolio

Environmental activists rally in Sydney to end native forest logging (cityhub.com.au)(link is external)

“We know that it is reckless regional forestry agreements, and weak and broken federal environmental laws that have allowed native forest logging to go on indiscriminately, which has put our wildlife at the brink of extinction,” 

One Environmental Activist Has Been Killed Every Other Day for the Past Decade (globalcitizen.org)(link is external)

At least 1,733 environmental activists and land defenders have been killed for their work over the past decade, according to a new report from the nonprofit Global Witness. That means that a person defending the environment is killed every other day, a harrowing statistic especially in the context of the worsening climate and biodiversity crisis.

To take climate action with a focus on human rights AI might be the group for you : Environmental Crisis - Amnesty International Australia. You can receive  urgent action requests which give you all you need to write in defence of environmental activist round the world.

GROUPS YOU CAN SUPPORT TO BAN NATIVE FOREST LOGGING

1. LEAN -  A_National_Forest_Protection_and_Workforce_Plan_for_Australia_LEAN.pdf (nationbuilder.com)

2. NORTH EAST FOREST ALLIANCE -Time to stop Logging Koalas to Extinction - North East Forest Alliance (nefa.org.au)

3.  SOUTH EAST REGION CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC. – A record of the endeavours to save the native forests of south east NSW from logging. (serca.org.au)

4. Wilderness Society | Deforestation

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Remember : SAVING FORESTS IS CLIMATE ACTION