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Australia sees rise in greenwashing front groups
2014-06-13 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Australia is seeing a rise in groups that purport to champion environmental causes but are actually actively undermining them as front organizations for industrial interests, argues an op-ed published in The Ecologist. William F. Laurance, a scientist at James Cook University, highlights recent campaigns by several organizations with green-sounding names, including a push by the "Australian Environment Foundation" to delist World Heritage listing for 74,000 hectares of rainforests in the Tasmania...
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