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A chance to be heard, four years on
On Tuesday 18th November, the NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA) facilitated the first of four meetings of the Community Reference Group (CRG) for Disaster Adaptation Planning (DAP) for the Northern Rivers (NR). This is a positive step for democratic, community participation in disaster preparedness and adaptation in collaboration with the RA. It is also a sliver…
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The greater glider needs more than promises
The greater glider – that wideeyed, fluffy-tailed icon of Australia’s forests – is slipping towards extinction. Once common across eastern and south-eastern Australia, this gentle nocturnal glider has become a symbol of everything going wrong in our native forests: clearing, fragmentation and the ongoing logging of habitat that simply cannot be replaced. Logging removes hollow-bearing…
