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South Pacific Forest Conservation News & Information, 2000

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12/29/00 -- Australia sets standards for sustainable land use

12/28/00 -- Moth threat to Australia's forests

12/22/00 -- When is a Christmas Tree not a Christmas Tree?

12/21/00 -- Water quality declines Down Under

12/15/00 -- NSW: Ancient trees reveal Australia once wetter, botanist says

12/15/00 -- Australian botanists find living 'fossil' tree

12/15/00 -- Australian botanist discovers living fossil hiding in rainforest

12/15/00 -- Australia Draws Energy, Carbon and Oil from Eucalypt Trees

12/15/00 -- An Old Story -- Botanists Find 'Living Fossil' Tree

12/14/00 -- WA: Japanese consumers seek woodchipping halt

12/10/00 -- Eco-Timber Brings Hope to Solomon Islands; Over-Harvesting Continues

12/05/00 -- Rude awakening in store for Australia locusts

12/02/00 -- Third party may gain from forest battle

11/30/00 -- Blue Mountains join list of world treasures

11/30/00 -- Australia's Blue Mountains join list of world treasures

11/29/00 -- NSW: Greater fame and protection for Blue Mountains: Carr

11/28/00 -- Australia resumes locust control as rains end

11/28/00 -- Australia resources buoyed by climate talks stand

11/27/00 -- War beckons wherever forests are plundered

11/24/00 -- Australia's Rampant & Shameful Bush Clearance

11/16/00 -- China threatens to shut polluting firms by year-end

11/16/00 -- Australian salinity crisis threatens farms - audit

11/10/00 -- Police payout for protesters

11/10/00 -- FACTBOX - The how, where and cost of salinity

11/09/00 -- Greens attack carbon credit loophole

11/09/00 -- Australia Funds National War Against Salty Lands

11/06/00 -- Australia hammers out salinity deal with states

10/29/00 -- Fed: Democrats turn around on energy bill

10/25/00 -- Western Australia's Forgotten Flower Back From the Dead

10/20/00 -- Fijian police are investigating whether a May coup was linked to blackmail attempt

10/20/00 -- Australia mulls national funds for salinity - paper

10/19/00 -- WA: Archbishop says timber workers are mischief making

10/11/00 -- Australia unveils plan to tackle salinity

10/11/00 -- $1.5b package to fight salinity

10/08/00 -- Australia Promotes Native Old-Growth Woodchipping as Renewable Energy

10/06/00 -- Too Much Timber

10/04/00 -- Aust Greens say government, Labor in pockets of woodchippers

10/02/00 -- Australia Allocates $2.7 Mln to Support Timber Sector

10/02/00 -- Aust govt announces $5 million program for Qld timbe rindustry

09/29/00 -- Queensland's Plan to Control Wetland Ignores Expert Advice

09/25/00 -- Felling would improve our forests' health, says minister

09/14/00 -- The Mahogany King's Brief Reign

09/11/00 -- Australian mammal is medical star

09/07/00 -- New Zealand's snake-free status threatened

09/07/00 -- Australia Funds Protection on National Threatened Species Day

09/05/00 -- Solving Australia's Salty Problem

08/29/00 -- When you can't see the forest

08/26/00 -- Logging in Tasmania threatens old-growth forests

08/24/00 -- Tree plantations: Australia's future fuel source?

08/22/00 -- Urgent Action for Australia's Forests

08/22/00 -- Howard stumped on land clearing

08/17/00 -- Economic future sees native forests upstanding, not woodchipped/burnt in greenhouse furnaces

08/07/00 -- ACTION ALERT: End Out of Control Australian Land Clearing!

08/01/00 -- Native Forest Network -- Australian Country Report

07/24/00 -- Nations Step Up Albatross Talks

07/19/00 -- Farmers accused of razing forest

07/10/00 -- Solomon Islands forestry minister wants early resumption oflogging

07/10/00 -- Australia calls for action to save the albatross

06/30/00 -- New Zealand Expects Increased Value of Wood Exports

05/23/00--Australian Plantation Sees Major Income From Carbon

05/22/00--Australia Funds World Heritage Area Conservation

05/18/00--New Zealand Gov't Bars Rainforest Logging

05/16/00--NZ opts for 2002 end to West Coast rimu forestry

05/10/00--Australia Disputes U.S. Listing Koalas as Endangered

05/10/00--Koala Put on U.S. Endangered Species List

05/09/00--Australia national park unhurt by mine leak - govt

05/09/00--New Zealand Acts to Protect Its Isolated Environment

05/06/00--Growing greenhouse forests in Australia

05/05/00--Australia Denies Mine Leak Delay Linked to Report

05/04/00--Nature Group Contracts to Buy and Preserve Pacific Atoll

05/04/00--The Nature Conservancy Announces Intent to Purchase Palmyra

05/04/00--Nature Group to Buy Pacific Atoll

05/04/00--Group to Buy Pacific Atoll, Preserve Wilderness

04/25/00--Australia: Major Upwards Revision of Woodchip Out of NSW Southern Region

04/20/00--Australian Park Enlargement Triggers Anger, Dismay

04/15/00--Dawn of 100 new national parks in Australia

03/28/00--NZ Timber Executives Foiled in Secret Plot to Keep Logging

03/23/00--Study: Early Humans Caused Extinction of NZ Flightless Birds

 3/13/00--Australia: Wesfarmers Boosts Plantation Chip Exports

3/13/00--Wilderness Inc, the Future of Australia's Forests

3/10/00--'Plant Pirates' Threaten Rare Australian Tree

3/6/00--Australia: More Anti-Logging Protests Threatened

2/25/00--South-West Australia Recognized as Biodiversity Hotspot

2/24/00--Australian Forest Activists Assaulted in East Gippsland

2/23/00--Australia's Massive Tree Felling

2/22/00--Australia: Violent Confrontation Between Loggers and Forest Protestors

2/19/00--Australia: Smelter Plan a Threat to Forests

2/17/00--Japan Power Firm Pays to Plant Australian Trees

2/3/00--Now You See it ... Last Specks of Shrinking Sydney Forest

2/3/00--Australian Premier to Meet PM Over Tree Clearing Legislation

1/31/00--Pacific Countries Need Help to Protect Biodiversity, WWF Says

1/28/00--Australia: Bunbury Forest Protest to Continue Against Old Growth Logging

1/28/00--Timberlands NZ Executive Resigns in Disgrace over Covert E-Mail Campaign

1/27/00--Australia: Greens, Loggers See Flaws in Forestry Proposals

1/27/00--Australia: Police Tiring of Anti-Logging Protests

1/14/00--New Zealand Scientists 'One-Sided' Over Logging

1/7/00--Fiji's Ono Reefs in 'Pristine' Condition

1/7/00--Fiji: Toolkit for documenting plant knowledge

1/7/00--Fiji: Environment Journalists to Hit Suva

1/7/00--Reef Management Plan Proposed for Fiji


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