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The plan to ban broad-scale land clearing on farms was due to come into effect next month.
The Tasmanian Government is confident a decision to scrap a plan to ban broad-scale land clearing will not breach its commitment to retain 95 per cent of the native forests that existed in 1996.
New rules that were expected to come into effect next month would have prevented farmers from clearing more than 20 hectares over five years.
But Resources Minister Paul Harriss has announced the limit will remain at 40 hectares a year while a review of the permanent native forest estate policy is undertaken.
"Business as usual will be available from the first of January 2015 to the first of January 2016," he said.
Mr Harriss said only 720 hectares were cleared last financial year.
"That 95 per cent of the native forest estate which existed in 1996 still has about 6,000 hectares in the bank," he said.
Vica Bayley of the Wilderness Society has warned broad-scale land clearing puts threatened species such as the orange-bellied swift parrot at risk.
"In some regions of Tasmania there's absolutely nothing left in the bank," he said.
Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association's Jan Davis said the move will allow them to expand crops to capitalise on the benefits of new irrigation schemes.
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Native forest clearing on farms ban ditched by Tasmanian Government
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Land clearing in the Kootenays of bc is necessary to see the sun.
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MAPUTO, MozambiqueWhen Biatriz Hernesto was a child, she and her school friends longed to pick fruit in the bush behind her grandparents' house. They knew that's where the best marula fruits and other wild treats grew. But they also knew the area contained land mines, so they seldom ventured there.
Hernesto grew up in Maxixe, in southern Mozambique, in the aftermath of a brutal civil war that lasted from 1977 to 1992 and left the southern African country riddled with deadly, unexploded ordnance.
When she saw people coming to clear the land of mines, she hid. "We thought the de-miners were soldiers who would kill us," says Hernesto, now 25.
Many of them were, in fact, former fighters. Traditionally, mine-clearing efforts in Mozambique, and globally, have employed ex-soldiers as a way to provide them with work and integrate them back into society, says Ashley Fitzpatrick of APOPO, a Belgian NGO headquartered in Tanzania that clears land mines in Africa and Asia.
But those demographics are shifting. In Mozambique and other countries, women are now working as de-miners.
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In Cambodia, women began taking up such work in 1995, followed by Kosovo in 1999. The passage of UN Resolution 1325 in 2000, which required the de-mining industry to work toward gender equality, has boosted the trend. Now, about 20 countries employ females in land-clearing occupations, which include de-mining, training, and managing.
The push for women miners has also come from donors who support the de-mining efforts of humanitarian organizations, says Arianna Calza Bini, director of the Geneva-based Gender and Mine Action Programme.
Those donors, along with the UN and many NGOs, note that in postconflict areas, de-mining is often one of the only economic opportunities available. And workers and funders want to include the larger community in the processit is, after all, their land that's being cleared. Finally, it's often women who are most at risk of being hurt or killed by land mines.
"Women are the people in Mozambique who are responsible for gathering firewood and water, and for tilling the fields," says Kate Brady of the United Nations Development Programme in Mozambique. "Therefore, they are [most] likely to be affected by land contamination."
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Rotochopper b66t grinding trees and brush from a large landclearing project we are working on .
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Doing some land clearing and using the skidder to move logs and firewood road side for the log truck and to make brush piles for when the grinder shows up. He is just help me break apart this...
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Earlier this year, a 10-year-old boy was collecting scrap metal in Bosnia when he stepped on a land mine, which killed him instantly. The mine was planted during a war of which the boy had no memory. Days later, a man met a similar fate only a few miles away. He had left home to gather firewood.
Land mines and other unexploded ordnance continue to endanger civilians in more than 60 countries. Decades after soldiers have laid down their weapons and leaders have made peace, these grim legacies of war kill and maim local populations.
For more than two decades, the United States has been at the forefront of international efforts to remove these deadly devices and to address the humanitarian effects that these weapons can have on civilian populations.
Today, I released the annual To Walk the Earth in Safety Report, which powerfully chronicles the progress we have made in clearing land mines from both battlefields and backyards.
Billions in U.S. Aid
Since 1993, the U.S. has provided more than $2.3 billion in assistance in over 90 countries for conventional weapons destruction programs. Thanks to strong bipartisan support in Congress, these funds provide the expertise and equipment to safely clear land mines and other unexploded ordnance. They also provide medication, rehabilitation and vocational training for those injured by these deadly weapons.
For example, we helped clear former minefields so that preschools might be built in Sri Lanka. In Vietnam, onetime battlegrounds have been transformed into busycommercial sectors. Children were once tethered to trees so they would not wander into killing fields in Angola. Today, large areas of the countryside have been made safe. And when flooding unearthed old mines in Serbia this year, the U.S. Quick Reaction Force deployed to contain the threat.
Our efforts to address the humanitarian impacts of land mines extend to our own weapons stockpiles.
In 1994, President Clinton pledged that we would work toward the eventual eliminationof antipersonnel land mines. President George W. Bush restricted the use of land mines to only those with self-destruct or self-deactivation features. In September, President Obama brought us one step closer to the goal of a world free from anti-personnel land mines when he announced that we will no longer use them outside of the unique circumstances of the Korean Peninsula.
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CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Dec 7 (Bernama) -- Land which has been illegally developed for farming in the Cameron Highlands will be cleared and then rehabilitated with tree planting.
National Security Council (NSC) secretary Datuk Mohamed Thajudeen Abdul Wahab said close monitoring would be conducted on land development in the Cameron Highlands to prevent further illegal land clearing for farming.
"When this happens, problems arise as it (illegal land clearing) affects the environment and ecology, hence causing natural disaster like soil erosion," he told reporters during an operation, code-named Ops Gading, at the Blue Valley here today.
A total of 300 personnel from 16 agencies, including the police, the Malaysian Armed forces, Immigration Department, Civil Defence Department, the People's Volunteer Corps and the Attorney-General's Chambers, were involved in the operation.
Mohamed Thajudeen said illegal land clearing for farming did not occur only in the Blue Valley, but also in several other areas in the Cameron Highlands.
Some 18 hectares of land in the Blue valley had been illegally developed for farming, he said, adding that structures on 10 hectares of the land had been demolished.
"After the area has been cleared, the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry will carry out works to improve the soil there by planting trees," he added.
The incident of mud floods and landslides in Kampung Raja, Ringlet town and Bertam Valley in the Cameron Highlands last Nov 5 resulted in the loss of five lives and more than 90 victims from 28 families to be evacuated to the Ringlet community hall.
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Natural Resources and Environment Ministry will carry out work to improve the soil to prevent erosion.
CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Land which has been illegally developed for farming in Cameron Highlands will be cleared and planted with trees.
National Security Council (NSC) secretary Mohamed Thajudeen Abdul Wahab said close monitoring would be conducted on land development in the Cameron Highlands to prevent further illegal land clearing for farming.
When this happens, problems arise as it (illegal land clearing) affects the environment and ecology, hence causing natural disasters like soil erosion, he told reporters during an operation, code-named Ops Gading, at the Blue Valley here today.
A total of 300 personnel from 16 agencies, including the police, the armed forces, Immigration Department, Civil Defence Department, the Peoples Volunteer Corps and the Attorney-Generals Chambers, were involved in the operation.
Mohamed Thajudeen said illegal land clearing for farming did not occur only in the Blue Valley, but also in several other areas in the Cameron Highlands.
Some 18ha in the Blue valley had been illegally developed for farming, he said, adding that structures on 10ha of the land had been demolished.
After the area has been cleared, the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry will carry out work to improve the soil there by planting trees, he added.
The incident of mud floods and landslides in Kampung Raja, Ringlet town and Bertam Valley in the Cameron Highlands last Nov 5 resulted in the loss of five lives and more than 90 victims from 28 families to be evacuated to the Ringlet community hall.
BERNAMA
A NEW South Wales farmer who starved himself to protest laws preventing him from clearing his own land has grilled former Federal environment minister Dr David Kemp over why the legislation was enacted.
Peter Spencer is locked in a three-week Federal Court property rights hearing in Sydney to fight for compensation for his bankrupt sheep farming business from the Federal and NSW governments.
He made headlines in 2010 when he was hospitalised after a 52-day hunger strike protest on his property near Cooma.
Dr Kemp was questioned over the Commonwealth's commitment to achieve carbon emission reduction levels set out by the Kyoto Protocol which led to a change in legislation.
He agreed the reduction of land clearing, especially in NSW and Queensland, was seen as the most important aspect of the scheme.
"The government I was associated with was determined to reach the targets and believed it had in place the policies to reach those targets," he said.
Mr Spencer has argued the Commonwealth should not be allowed to profit, through carbon offset rights, from restrictions on clearing land it does not own without properly compensating the landowner.
He blames the introduction of state laws which made it illegal for him to clear about 80% of his land for destroying his now-defunct farming business.
Dr Kemp agreed Australia was falling behind in 2001 and 2002 of its target to keep annual emissions to 108% of 1990 levels.
The NSW Native Vegetation Act was enacted in 2003, requiring landholders to gain a permit before clearing any native vegetation on their property.
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Katter flies to hungry farmer's side in land rights case