Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A 16-million hectare block of Western Australian wilderness could hold the key to sequestering the nation’s carbon. The Great Western Woodlands runs along the far eastern section of the wheatbelt and into the goldfields, and across the western side of the Nullarbor Plain. It’s the world’s largest remaining untouched temperate woodland, and is said to store almost double the nation’s annual carbon emissions. The Wilderness Society is calling for the region to be protected …
Aug 13th, 2008 by Administrator |
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