There are serious flaws in the environmental offsets being used to compensate for the new western Sydney airport now under construction in Badgerys Creek, a Guardian Australia investigation has found.
All up, 1,780ha of bushland will be razed to make way for the new travel hub – an area bigger than the Adelaide CBD.
In theory, offsets allow developers to compensate for the damage they cause in one area by undertaking work to deliver an equivalent or greater environmental benefit in another.
But the site chosen by the federal government to offset the airport is an example of what’s known by experts as “double-dipping” – it had already been earmarked for permanent environmental protection. There will be no new conservation reserves created in western Sydney to compensate for the damage caused by the massive new development.
Let s talk about what cruelty-free skincare actually means. Mamamia 14/02/2021
Want to make the switch to natural skincare? Go you! Confused as hell? SAME.
With words like vegan and ‘cruelty-free’ popping up everywhere you look, along with a bunch of certifications and frilly descriptions, it can be confusing to know what this kind of jargon really means.
And while you d think every product with the word natural slapped on the front is actually made from nothing but natural ingredients, unfortunately it s a little more complicated than that.
Sigh.
So, what s the real difference between vegan and cruelty-free beauty products? Or are they exactly the same thing and someone s just trying to pull a fast one on us? (And succeeding).
âExtinction inevitable if we donât act nowâ: Former Kings Park director wants emergency team for Carnabyâs
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Extinction is inevitable for Perthâs endangered black cockatoos if a planned three-year log of northern suburbs pine plantations goes ahead without a replanting strategy, a leading restoration ecologist says.
The warning comes as the government throws millions into green jobs and revegetation strategies focusing on the regions rather than the imminent loss of the key metropolitan habitat of the Carnabyâs cockatoo.
Gnangara mound pine plantations across the cities of Wanneroo and Swan.
A burgeoning industry in Woorabinda with the potential for international appeal could drastically improve the economic independence of the Central Queensland shire.
Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council, conservation organisation Greening Australia, and Rural and Remote Development Consultants announced on Friday they were going ahead with practical testing for large-scale wattleseed production at Woorabinda nearly 20 years after the then-mayor Steven Kemp commissioned a feasibility study into the idea.
The 12 months of testing will involve analysing plant varieties, soil types, and the water requirements needed to sustainably and commercially produce the plant.
Initial funding included $38,000 from Greening Australia and $40,500 from the Department of State Development, but private investment may be required in the long-term.
Three years until Carnaby s cockatoo starvation starts, BirdLife warns
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Perth’s endangered Carnaby s black cockatoos will begin to starve in three years after the state government logs what remains of their most significant remaining feeding site, BirdLife Australia has warned.
There were once 23,000 hectares of pine plantations across the Gnangara mound near Yanchep, north of Perth. After progressive harvests that s now 6000. The government plans to log the remainder with no large-scale revegetation strategy for the land.
Conservationists fear for the future of the Carnaby s black cockatoo.