Joe Morrison is currently touring the United
States. Here's a map of his travels. One of the items on
his busy schedule was a meeting hosted by the Washington
chapter of The Nature Conservancy as part of its efforts to
enhance partnerships with local people around the
world.
Staff News
Donna Bush is
leaving the Carbon Team to have a baby. Christine Michael
will join the team to take over some of Donna’s work
coordinating the Carbon Project.
Susan Pedersen has joined the Carbon Project team as
Communications Officer. Initially she will focus on compiling some
tools to help workshop facilitators
deliver information about the Carbon Program to Indigenous land
managers and Carbon Project participants:
- Posters to display and use as props during meetings
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Booklets for attendees to take away and read
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Pilot DVD for presentations by facilitators
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Pilot DVD for presentations by facilitators
The posters, booklets and DVDs will help Indigenous land managers
understand the Carbon Program, how they can benefit from being
involved in it and how to get involved.
Wheel2wheel
This
motorbike ride from Hong Kong to Brisbane aims to raise the
profiles of and money for ten community benefit programs, one in
each of 10 countries traversed.
The W2W
group will be making a documentary about NAILSMA which includes
some on-country stories. W2W aims to contribute funds raised by the
journey to the community programs when the journey is over. Have a
look at the W2W
website to see what the riders are up to.
Yuk Maak
The Aurukun Land Management Group has started a newsletter
to help inform local people about land management and other issues,
including what’s happening with their emission abatement
project. Yuk Maak is seen as a useful communications
tool that really helps fill some gaps in local knowledge, helps
with planning and can help answer questions that arise about all
the activity going on out bush. You can download your copy from the
NAILSMA website,
just click on the image of the newsletter front
page.
Other News
Communique - National Indigenous Climate Change Forum – Alice
Springs March 2011
The National Indigenous Climate Change Forum welcomed the
Australian Government’s attempts to deal with native title in
the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) but seeks clarification about
access and participation of native title holders to the carbon
industry. Download pdf of
full communique here.
Garnaut Climate Change Review – Update 5 2011
Here are the
six key points from the Review and links to the full
update.
