The Australian Government is developing a strategy to restore and manage ecological connections in the Australian landscape. The National Wildlife Corridors Plan Advisory Group has prepared a Draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan. The Advisory Group is seeking public comments and consulting with key stakeholders before preparing a final plan for consideration by the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Have your say – comments close 20 April 2012.
Australian Heritage Week is an annual national celebration of Australia’s unique cultural and natural heritage. You can visit heritage sites and enjoy heritage experiences or host your own activities that showcase your unique local heritage to the rest of the country. Coinciding with Australian Heritage Week, 18 April is International Day for Monuments and Sites.
On 22 April, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012 and help Mobilize the Earth™. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. Attend a local Earth Day event, join one of the Earth Day campaigns, or organise and register your own Earth Day events.
“But what can one person do?”, perhaps said with a worried look or a small apologetic smile, is a fairly common reaction to warnings about climate change. The One Person Can project began as one person’s attempt to change that. This project provides mechanisms for giving a high degree of visibility to the safe-climate actions that all sorts of individuals are already taking, so that we need never again think that one person’s actions don’t count.
Sign up to One Planet Week today and take a step towards sustainable living. In One Planet Week, participants will seek sponsorship to live for the week with a significantly reduced ecological footprint. This will involve actions such as walking or riding a bike to work, buying no packaged goods and eating local produce.
Held each year at 8:30pm on the last Saturday in March, Earth Hour is a WWF initiative which symbolises the collective power of individuals, businesses and governments to reduce our environmental impact on this one and only planet we call home. From it’s beginnings in one city in one country – Sydney – Earth Hour has grown to millions of people in over 5000 cities across 135 countries.
For Earth Hour 2012, you can bring your community together to host an Earth Hour Unplugged fundraising event that is all about unplugged entertainment (that means no electricity!), and there are also the 2012 WWF Earth Hour Awards which are now in their second year.
The Sustainable Living Festival raises awareness and provides tools for change by showcasing leading solutions to the ecological and social challenges we face. Australia’s largest and oldest, the festival attracts a large number of visitors and is staged through the engagement of hundreds of organisations and individuals.
Statistically speaking, people over fifteen years old are the worst offenders when it comes to littering. For reasons unknown, once people turn fifteen they begin to litter more heavily and continue to do so for the rest of their lives. That’s why Keep Australia Beautiful has put The LITTLE Committee in charge of fixing the problem. They’re all kids under fifteen, hand picked to join The LITTLE Committee, determined to put an end to adults littering in Australia. Their job is to become the new face of litter in Australia though advertising campaigns, in the media and by meeting with important people. Members of The LITTLE Committee are available to speak at events and functions, and are available for media comment on issues relating to litter.