Thursday, 27th December 2012
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The Adelaide Oval redevelopment has claimed an avenue of historic century-old white cedar trees to make way for car parks. The state's most powerful planning body has upheld a State Government push to axe the 105-year-old trees lining a pedestrian avenue north of the oval.www.adelaidenow.com.au/news
Riverland stonefruit growers are facing a difficult season with low prices and oversupply despite producing high quality fruit.
www.riverlandweekly.com.au
The Wine Grape Council of South Australia plans to meet with other horticulture industry bodies to discuss a proposal to introduce legislation that in the worst case scenario, would see landowners forced to remove dead fruit trees.
www.riverlandweekly.com.au
The core business of councils has traditionally been roads, rates and rubbish - but from January 1 they also must put in a concerted effort to get and keep South Australians healthy.www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/
A new Natural Resources Centre was officially opened recently in Clare to service the Northern and Yorke NRM Region.Wombats in the Murraylands desperately need all our help. The Natural History Society of SA manage one of the largest populations of Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats in privately owned reserves with nearly 2,000 warrens.
Production recently resumed at the the Murray Zircon mineral sands mine at Mindarie in what the State Government is hailing a milestone event.
www.murrayvalleystandard.com.au
The Aleppo pines in The Lane at Penneshaw have been granted a temporary reprieve.
www.theislanderonline.com.au
Useful advice from the Bird Care & Conservation Society if you find a distressed or injured bird.
http://www.birdcare.asn.au/
The latest issue of Sustainable Engineering Australia digital magazine is now live.
www.engineersaustralia.org.au
AUSTRALIA
The Greens have announced a party platform portraying many of their core beliefs as ''aims and principles'' rather than explicit policies, presenting a smaller target to critics in a federal election year.www.theage.com.au
A massive gas-fired power project planned for the brown-coal-dominated Latrobe Valley has been put on ice by its proponents who cite a collapse in energy demand from consumers.www.theage.com.au/
The Federal Government is standing by its commitment to set up a Wheat Industry Advisory Taskforce and is taking nominations from growers and industry.
www.abc.net.au/rural
Cloud seeding is ploughing ahead in the Snowy Mountains with independent scientific evaluation showing increased snowfall events can also produce additional water to enhance electricity generation and downstream flows for irrigators and the environment.
www.farmweekly.com.au/news
Experts have called on Australian governments to do more to control the growing problem of electronic waste.
www.efarming.com.au/News
Grafting has few expert practitioners left in Australia, and some fear it could be a dying art. But this skill is vital in fruit orchards, as well as vineyards and flower production.
Rohan Anderson has turned his back on materialism and consumerism. Living on one acre in country Victoria, he grows as much of his food as he can. He harvests fruit and vegetables in season and preserves them for the rest of the year.
www.abc.net.au/rural
Time seems to stand still in the forests of Old Growth, a stunning new book compiled by Peter McConchie and featuring the work of 16 photographers.
www.wilderness.org.au/articles/
With more than eleven thousand separate beaches, we are truly spoiled for choice. But who would stick their neck out and dare to name the best beach in Australia?
www.abc.net.au/rural
www.abc.net.au/rural
www.australiangeographic.com.au
THE Australian Professional Rodeo Association (APRA) holds animal welfare clinics in every state to ensure the welfare of competition animals is paramount, says rodeo administrator Steve Hilton.
www.farmweekly.com.au
INTERNATIONAL
Everywhere, trees are dying. The boreal forests of Canada and Russia are being devoured by beetles. Drought-tolerant pines are disappearing in Greece. In North Africa, Atlas cedars are shrivelling. Wet and dry tropical forests in Asia are collapsing. Australian eucalyptus forests are burning. The Amazon basin has just been hit by two severe droughts. And it's predicted that trees in the American Southwest may be gone by the end of this century.
www.smh.com.au/environment
Biofuel is coming to Saudi Arabia. After much success in neighbor Egypt in low income areas, Saudi Arabia hopes that a new joint venture will help spur the renewable energy source for the Gulf Kingdom.
www.greenprophet.com
In the midst of a global poaching and wildlife trade crisis, WCS reports significant progress in protection of Tigers in three separate landscapes.
www.wcs.org/news
Toyota Motor Corporation launched in Japan the redesigned Crown Royal and Crown Athlete sedans; production of a new hybrid version of the sedan will begin in late January 2013.
www.greencarcongress.com
Biofuel is coming to Saudi Arabia. After much success in neighbor Egypt in low income areas, Saudi Arabia hopes that a new joint venture will help spur the renewable energy source for the Gulf Kingdom.
www.greenprophet.com
In the midst of a global poaching and wildlife trade crisis, WCS reports significant progress in protection of Tigers in three separate landscapes.
www.wcs.org/news
Toyota Motor Corporation launched in Japan the redesigned Crown Royal and Crown Athlete sedans; production of a new hybrid version of the sedan will begin in late January 2013.
www.greencarcongress.com
Rhinos and elephants have a range of remarkable behaviours and adaptations, many of which we are only just learning.
www.bbc.co.uk/nature
www.bbc.co.uk/nature
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