EPISODE · Jul 27, 2021
City Limits - Protecting Our Forests
from City Limits · host Zeb Peake, Meg Kimber, Karina Aedo-Aguilera, Scott Jordan, Chris Schuringa
Join Zeb and Meg this week on City Limits to discuss Australia's forests, the campaigns to protect them, and the importance of direct action!We interview Scott Jordan [20:55], Takanya/Tarkine campaigner from the Bob Brown Foundation, about the current permit application to build a toxic tailings dam in this irreplaceable temperate rainforest. We also talk indigenous cultural heritage, citizen science, and what's really "locked-up" when it comes to our ecosystems.Next up [41:47], we invite Chris Schuringa (campaigner from GECO, Goongerah Environment Centre) on to discuss updates on the successes of the 4-month community action to protect unburnt forest on the Errinundra Plateau, GECO's plans for when logging machines return in spring and summer, the role of Bidwell-Maap people in protecting logging coups (despite the Victorian Government's recalcitrance in even acknowledging the role of Aboriginal people) and more. If you can't get your boots on the ground at either of these sites, here are some other ways to help:Have your say in the government's Bushfire Review (submissions open until 31st August)Have your say in the Vic Government's changes to weaken logging lawsYou can also contact local Federal MPs and state senators to tell them to nominate and stand for the Tarkine rainforest as a world heritage site.
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Join Zeb and Meg this week on City Limits to discuss Australia's forests, the campaigns to protect them, and the importance of direct action!We interview Scott Jordan [20:55], Takanya/Tarkine campaigner from the Bob Brown Foundation, about the current permit application to build a toxic tailings dam in this irreplaceable temperate rainforest. We also talk indigenous cultural heritage, citizen science, and what's really "locked-up" when it comes to our ecosystems.Next up [41:47], we invite Chris Schuringa (campaigner from GECO, Goongerah Environment Centre) on to discuss updates on the successes of the 4-month community action to protect unburnt forest on the Errinundra Plateau, GECO's plans for when logging machines return in spring and summer, the role of Bidwell-Maap people in protecting logging coups (despite the Victorian Government's recalcitrance in even acknowledging the role of Aboriginal people) and more. If you can't get your boots on the ground at either of these sites, here are some other ways to help:Have your say in the government's Bushfire Review (submissions open until 31st August)Have your say in the Vic Government's changes to weaken logging lawsYou can also contact local Federal MPs and state senators to tell them to nominate and stand for the Tarkine rainforest as a world heritage site.
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