Lilia Letsch
Learn about the southern forest campaigns, forests and climate change and how you can help. Speakers, workshops, films, music. Camping. No Dogs!
Southern Forests Convergence
Forest Skillshare.
Burton’s Reserve, Cygnet.
18th – 20th January 2008
Learn about the southern forest campaigns, forests and climate change and how you can help. Speakers, workshops, films, music. Camping. No Dogs.
For more info visit http://www.huon.org, or contact Jenny [email protected]
Presentations & workshops over the weekend include:
– Deep Ecology and Interstate Forest Campaigns (Ruth Rosenhek, Rainforest Information Centre)
– The connectivity between karst and surface ecologies, why we need to know and need to care and probably expound some myths (Deb Hunter, a founder of the Great Western Tiers National Park Campaign, a founder of the Deloraine Environment Centre (now The Environment Assn) and a founder of the Mole Creek Caving Club. )
– Ecophilosophy (Kate Booth, PhD candidate, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, UTas.)
– ‘Changing with the Climate’ presentation (Peter Boyer)
– Slide presentation on the Threatened Southern Forests (Rob Blakers, Photographer)
– The Pulp Mill Campaign (Vica Bayley and Gemma Tillack, The Wilderness Society)
– Knowing your Legal Rights (Cassandra Gregg, Lawyer with Fitzgerald and Browne Lawyers)
– Tall Trees workshop (Wally Hermann, Tall Trees Specialist)
– Special Values & Linking Landscapes (Nic Fitzgerald)
– Media Skills (Cassy O’Connor, Save Ralphs Bay Media Spokesperson, Media Adviser to Senator Christine Milne)
– How to access and use the Natural Values Atlas, other info sources for special values, government threatened species legislation, and GIS technology (Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick, UTas).
