Resting back in the hands of the people of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, 180 000 square kilometres of prime Australian dirt. From an area that abounds to include Mount Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts, and extending to the South Australian and Northern Territory borders, the land settlement brings the natives to their home, as custodians and as the caretakers for the mighty soil.
Japan, after recently declaring a spree on whaling, threw the National Association of Forest Industries with their recent announcement, declaring a ban on old-growth borne wood chips. Tasmanian loggers, perplexed by the land of the rising sun taking an interest in conservation, fear that many jobs could fall and slash as fast as the fins on a humpback whale for recipe and scientific dining research.
Written on Wednesday, 29 June 2005