'Defence Strategy' needed to tackle environmental crisis

Organisers of the Linking Landscapes Summit 2009 have presented federal environment minister Peter Garrett with a 'natural defence strategy' for Australia's environment that would focus on the creation, protection and restoration of major ecological corridors across the country.
Delivered to the minister in December last year, the communique came out of the Linking Landscapes Summit, which looked at the future of land use in Australia.
The summit is seen as the first step in developing a co-ordinated response to the conservation of Australia’s ecosystems in the face of climate change, bringing together Indigenous people, private landholders and the busiess sector.

For more info about the summit see http://www.linkinglandscapes.net.au/