Issue 45
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Wilderness: a way of truth
Across Australia, and indeed many parts of the world, the human race is searching for that 'nostalgia', a longing to reconnect with that blueprint of what creation was about in the beginning.
 
 Indigenous people tell corporations to pay for destruction
Leaders of the world's 350 million aboriginal people gathered in New York earlier this month to discuss ways to protect their culture and environment, demanded that multinational corporations accept legal responsibility for policies that destroy Indigenous lands and lifestyles. - Inter Press Service
Expert fears big loss of native birds
Native bird species in Tasmania's North-West and King Island face extinction unless land clearing in the region is controlled, the A Thousand Cuts land-clearing conference heard last week. - The Mercury
Labor introduces Kyoto bill
On Monday Labor introduced its own bill into Parliament to join the more than 100 countries that have ratified the Kyoto protocol on climate change. - Sunday Mail
 
Tribal man plants forest in defiance of tradition
The harijans in Orissa, India, believe that if a member of their tribe plants trees, a death will occur in the community. Harijan Nirakar Mallick was so concerned about the state’s degraded coastline that he decided to defy the taboo by planting thousands of threes. - Infochange India
 
Why we need the Earth Charter
While we have the knowledge and technology to provide for all and to reduce our impact on the environment, the benefits of development are not shared equitably and the gap between rich and poor is widening. - Columbans
 
 AusAid Global Education
This is the education section of the website of AusAid, the Australian Government's overseas aid agency. It contains extensive resources for primary and secondary education on a range of global issues including the environment. The content is organised according to age levels, countries and case studies. There is a special World Environment Day feature that includes case studies such as the restoration of the land in Nauru following the end of phosphate mining.
 
What the wilderness offers ...
Emptiness and barrenness and silence ... No votes to cast, women to seduce, money to accumulate, celebrity to acquire. All the habitual pursuits of the ego and appetites are suspended. - Malcolm Muggeridge
 
Sixty Thousand Barrels SBS TV, 8:30 pm, Friday 30 May
Sydney residents fight a giant battle against 60,000 barrels of highly toxic waste in their midst.
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Caritas Latest
Staff from Caritas Australia arrived in the Solomon Islands Friday, August
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Mr Jack de Groot, National Director of Caritas Australia, said Caritas Australia supports the regional intervention in the Solomon Islands, while expressing caution that a blanket amnesty is not introduced which allows offenders to go unpunished.
Caritas Australia has released a position paper calling on the Australian government to rethink the proposal to ignore serious crimes committed in the Solomon Islands before its intervention commences.
"Justice is a precondition for permanent reconciliation and peace. Amnesties do not provide justice," Caritas Australia spokesman, Jamie Isbister, Acting National Director said today.
The paper also highlights the growing crisis caused by the increasing number of small arms concentrating in Melanesia, particularly in the Solomon Islands. See the Policy
The objectives of Australia's intervention in the Solomon Islands need to be clarified. For Australia's aims to be justifiable, there should be commitment to the Solomon Islanders which includes the elimination of guns and the flow of weapons, says the latest Caritas Policy brief.
See the Policy
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