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Mining company escapes Great Barrier Reef compensation payments and strict operating conditions
Posted by Blue and Green: Richard Heasman on August 20th, 2014
Blue and Green: The Australian government’s environmental protections system has been labelled “broken” after Gina Rinehart’s mining company managed to negotiate down both compensation repayments and operating practices.
Information released due to a freedom of information request shows the previous Labour government demanded $800,000 (£446,000) a year in “biodiversity offsets” from mining company GVK Hancock as the environmental damage from its operations were deemed significant.
The company counter offered...
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Impacts of climate change and land use on wildlife must be considered, say researchers
Posted by Blue and Green: Charlotte Malone on August 20th, 2014
Blue and Green: Policymakers need to consider the impacts of both climate change and land use when studying ecosystems, researchers have said. A study has found that when the two factors are analysed together, there are variances in the findings depending on the region.
Volker Radeloff, one of the researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said, “For conservation, as the world is changing, we want to know, how will wildlife respond. We need to take both land use and climate into account as we look...