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...