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12/30/01 -- Arsonists Set Bush Fires, Choke Sydney

12/29/01 -- AUSTRALIA: Kwogi strives to save forest

12/28/01 -- Sydney Devastated by Wild Fires

12/28/01 -- Scientist: Bush Fires Part of an Ancient Cycle

12/28/01 -- Australian officials fear fires will flare again

12/27/01 -- Fires still raging out of control around Sydney

12/27/01 -- Australia wakes to third day of major bush fires

12/26/01 -- Winds Wreak Havoc as Brush Fires Ring Sydney for a 3rd Day

12/26/01 -- Fed: Bushfires continue to circle capital

12/26/01 -- Dozens of Fires Rage in Australia

12/24/01 -- ACT: Fires threaten Govt House, force evacuations in suburbs

12/19/01 -- Extinct shrub 'rediscovered'

12/16/01 -- To Help Land, Australians Rethink Role of Kangaroos

12/14/01 -- SAMOA: Rainforest Produces AIDS Fighter

12/14/01 -- Forest Products Commission considers jarrah bids

12/11/01 -- Ancient Australians altered rainforests to survive

12/12/01 -- Lawyers donate time to help forest protestors

12/10/01 -- Qld man jailed for logging in heritage-listed rainforest

12/07/01 -- Illegal land clearing investigation underway

12/04/01 -- Police defend forest presence

12/04/01 -- Kyoto pact will nobble NZ forestry, says CHH

12/04/01 -- Applications close for jarrah contracts

12/03/01 -- Hope for agreement on Otways Forest logging

12/03/01 -- Claims NSW Govt over-reacted to forest protests

11/29/01 -- BHP land to become reserve

11/27/01 -- 11 arrested in forest protest

11/26/01 -- Conservationists hold Barrabup jarrah forest protest

11/21/01 -- Woodchipping 'absurd relic'

11/21/01 -- Australia fifth highest land clearer - report

11/20/01 -- NEW ZEALAND: Preserving the last wilderness

11/20/01 -- Otways logging talks underway

11/17/01 -- Spectacled flying foxes under threat

11/16/01 -- Liberal concerns over Forest Practices changes

11/15/01 -- China Making Play for the Fijian Mahogany That Triggered Speight Coup

11/15/01 -- Tuckey urges sacked timber workers to become fire wardens

11/08/01 -- Loggers target MP's office

11/06/01 -- Birth control considered for Australia's koalas

11/06/01 -- WA Nationals call for report into conservation value of forest

11/05/01 -- Moves to protect old growth forests

11/05/01 -- Labor launches forests policy, says will maintain RFA

11/04/01 -- Labor's native forest policy enough to secure Greens'preferences

11/03/01 -- Labor's native forest policy enough to secure Greens' preferences

11/02/01 -- Federal Election Howard's Environmental Policy; Green solution 'must suit economy'

11/02/01 -- Ecologists call for cull to save koalas

10/31/01 -- Icon status saves koalas from cull threat

10/31/01 -- 20,000 koalas face slaughter

10/30/01 -- Actor joins Greens' battle to halt woodchipping

10/29/01 -- NEW ZEALAND: New wildlife park opens

10/26/01 -- Tas: Liberals for forests target Tasmania

10/25/01 -- End Tasmanian old growth logging -- Greens

10/20/01 -- Australians on alert for 'invincible' ant

10/20/01 -- Greenhouse deal could put trees in black

10/19/01 -- Global warming threatening north Qld rainforests

10/15/01 -- Australia outdoes Third World in land clearing

10/08/01 -- Australian scientist pioneers sustainable flower industry

10/07/01 -- Cut down to size - Logger faces jail term over historic trees

10/04/01 -- Australian farmers call for land rights guarantee

10/04/01 -- Democrats' survey opposes logging

09/29/01 -- Friends' bold plan to save rare plants

09/27/01 -- We can't afford to cut down our forests for power

09/26/01 -- Qld: Botanists hail new plant species find

09/26/01 -- Climate change policy to hurt NZ forestry - report

09/26/01 -- Fed: Government blames Labor for no forest bill debate

09/25/01 -- NEW ZEALAND: Silna logging appealed

09/24/01 -- Solomon Islands join race to save rare bird

09/17/01 -- Queensland Indigenous People Approve Mineral Exploration

09/14/01 -- Australia concerned over threat to Great Barrier Reef

09/13/01 -- Survey supports reduced logging

09/12/01 -- Great Barrier Reef Overloaded with Pollutants

09/11/01 -- AUSTRALIA QLD: Hill's reef plan welcomed but more needed say Greens

09/06/01 -- Australia rules out barring ships from Barrier Reef

09/05/01 -- Unique Land Preserved in Western Australia

08/30/01 -- The forgotten forests' last stand

08/28/01 -- New Environmental Plan Worth Billions to Rural Australia

08/27/01 -- NEW ZEALAND: Native plantation scheme targets greenhouse gases

08/23/01 -- Landcare Research Moves to Link Biodiversity and Carbon Sinks

08/23/01 -- WWF to focus on protection of the Great Barrier Reef

08/21/01 -- Oil Exploration Possible Near Great Barrier Reef

08/21/01 -- Mystery surrounds the death of Australia's megafauna

08/21/01 -- EU questions Pacific forum's stance on climate change

08/18/01 -- Oil search plan near Barrier Reef

08/17/01 -- Tas: Doctors for forests spreading

08/16/01 -- Australian Government Funds Backyard Biodiversity

08/16/01 -- Protesters charged after halting Marengo forest logging

08/11/01 -- Tas: Woodchipping like tearing down Opera House:actress

08/11/01 -- Demands for Labor to make forest policy known

08/09/01 -- Fed: Government votes with Greens to protect forests

08/09/01 -- Fed: Government and Greens claim victory over forest motion

07/27/01 -- Koala lovers call for action to save gum trees

07/26/01 -- Call for action on koalas

07/25/01 -- Australia says helps weed out global plant scam

07/21/01 -- NEW ZEALAND: Green Party supports logging venture

07/20/01 -- QLD: Submission fails to stop flying fox hearing

07/20/01 -- NEW ZEALAND: MP's logging claim called misguided

07/19/01 -- QLD: Flying fox numbers queried in landmark hearing

07/18/01 -- QLD: Court asked to stop flying fox kills in landmark case

07/18/01 -- Flying Fox Touches Lawsuit in Australia

07/17/01 -- Great Barrier Reef pollution report backed by science

07/16/01 -- British group to battle Australian kangaroo cull

07/13/01 -- Australia's dugongs in fight for survival

07/01/01 -- Dingoes Threaten Extinction of Hairy-Nosed Wombats

06/28/01 -- National Lagging in Preparations for Wall of Wood - Hodgson

06/21/01 -- Fire ant threatens Australia's environment

06/20/01 -- Seven fishing nations sign pact to save albatross

06/20/01 -- Confusion surrounds mystery nuclear test

06/19/01 -- New Treaty Safeguards Disappearing Albatrosses and Petrels

06/19/01 -- Albatrosses and petrels given a real chance for survival

06/15/01 -- Queensland Test 'Was Not a Nuclear Bomb'

06/14/01 -- Nuclear bomb may have been tested in Australian rainforest

06/13/01 -- AUSTRALIA: WA Libs to review forest policy

06/13/01 -- AUSTRALIA: Fed: Rainforest becomes a cold war casualty

06/12/01 -- Groups call on govt to halt land clearing

06/11/01 -- Australian Aborigines killed off giant animals: scientists

06/09/01 -- Rainforest foundation gets buyback fund boost

06/07/01 -- Rat Removers Place Tons of Poison to Protect Rare Birds

06/06/01 -- Pollution killing Australia's Barrier Reef - report

06/06/01 -- AUSTRALIA: Fed: Tuckey criticises ACF on forests

06/01/01 -- Innovative GIS project model for the natural and cultural mapping of wetlands

06/01/01 -- AUSTRALIA: WA timber industry slams Govt over slow action

05/28/01 -- Big financial boost for the Australian environment

05/27/01 -- Campaigners call for forest protection after bulldozing

05/25/01 -- NEW ZEALAND: A Vexing, Virulent Varmint

05/24/01 -- Australia's Wildlife Trade Bill Sets New Standards

05/23/01 -- Australian Budget Extends Natural Heritage Trust by A$1Billion

05/18/01 -- Conservationists mount further anti-woodchipping protest

05/16/01 -- Australia continues dingo cull after more attacks

05/10/01 -- Vic: Green activists lock onto Gippsland loggers' equipment

05/09/01 -- Greenpeace says to continue protests against Stuart oil project

05/05/01 -- Wild dogs culled in Australia after tragedy

05/04/01 -- Australia Orders Dingo Cull After Fatal Mauling

05/02/01 -- Calls for culling dingoes after death of young Australian boy

05/02/01 -- TAS: Japanese greens to take woodchip fight home

05/02/01 -- Japanese greens urge boycott of Australian woodchip

04/28/01 -- NSW: Forest agreement sells out jobs and forests, Greens say

04/25/01 -- Global green alliance swells Down Under

04/24/01 -- World warming said melting Australia's alpine snow

04/24/01 -- Fed: flying foxes vital to hardwood industry

04/24/01 -- Australian Timber Industry May Be Dependent on Flying Foxes

04/23/01 -- Global warming melting Australia's snow?

04/22/01 -- Australian Democrats Leader Slams Proposal to Log Old Growth

04/22/01 -- Gourmet kangaroos face extinction

04/21/01 -- Poor Australian Land Management Chokes Great Barrier Reef

04/19/01 -- Vic: Protesters ready to stop Otway logging today

04/19/01 -- Vic: Greenies defy loggers again

04/18/01 -- Vic: Moratorium on contentious Otways logging

04/18/01 -- Vic: Environmentalists "wired" and ready to thwart logging

04/17/01 -- Vic: Six arrested in logging protest clash

04/15/01 -- The battle of the Otways

04/15/01 -- Brown condemns Labor forests policy

04/11/01 -- Vic: Otway loggers thwarted by bad weather

04/09/01 -- Australian farmers say bat threatens fruit industry

04/09/01 -- Vic: Tensions increase as Otways logging protests continue

04/07/01 -- Anti-logging protests takes to the trees

04/06/01 -- Vic: Protesters attach themselves to machinery to stop logging

04/06/01 -- Greenpeace claims victory over Stuart shale oil project

04/05/01 -- The cruellest cut

04/05/01 -- Environmentalists question Jabiluka's future

04/04/01 -- Fed: Media ignores big Tas forest rally, says Brown

04/03/01 -- Fed: Logging is destroying rainforest

03/27/01 -- Green energy consumers supporting burning of forests: Brown

03/21/01 -- Loggers block parliament in protest over greenies

03/19/01 -- Vic; Green activists block logging in Wombat Forest

03/19/01 -- Experts to assess forest overcutting

03/19/01 -- Australia Gives Forests the Chop

03/16/01 -- Australia Declares Biological War on The Cane Toad

03/14/01 -- Black Pearl Developers Threaten Pacific Seabirds

03/08/01 -- Last Seen 1918, Australia's Cranbrook Pea is Back

03/05/01 -- Fire ant invasion of Australia could cost farmers billions

03/02/01 -- NSW Govt Accused of Selling Out on Wilderness Promises

02/26/01 -- The Age: Too much logging 'risks jobs'

02/21/01 -- Export log trade set to explode

02/20/01 -- Vic: Protesters stop loggers in East Gippsland

02/16/01 -- Old Growth Forests saved in Western Australia

02/01/01 -- Tas: Don't destroy our nature, tourism chief warns

02/01/01 -- Anti-logging protesters moon Australia's Howard

01/28/01 -- WA: PM pelted with woodchips in flying visit to WA

01/25/01 -- Fed: Aust still relying on imported timber products

01/23/01 -- WA: Labor's forest promise draws wrath of union

01/23/01 -- NSW: Legal loopholes lead to woodland destruction

01/19/01 -- WA forest campaigners claim breakthrough

01/19/01 -- Foul cane toads threaten Australian park

01/19/01 -- FOCUS - Forests in ferment

01/16/01 -- Australian Environmentalists Wage Protest to Protect Tigers

01/15/01 -- Rare mammal found in Victorian forest

01/14/01 -- Melbourne shrouded by worst haze in 18 years

01/12/01 -- Hailed as a global leader for conservation

01/12/01 -- Australia's Privately Owned Forests Need More Attention: Min

01/10/01 -- Biological Control Conquers Biblical Plague

01/04/01 -- Independent panels set up to determine future of Vic forests

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