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TREES PLANTED
since 1997
23 November 2009
Offset industry waiting on change
Author: Graham Readfearn, The Courier Mail
THE mercury is pushing 45C and Scott Hunter is standing barefoot at the bottom of Mt Barney among 60,000 trees which - a couple of years ago - weren't there. I'm wearing shoes.
Stretching across 60ha (about 120 footy fields) of former cattle grazing land, this property is the epicentre of Australia's burgeoning carbon offset industry Hunter, a snaggletoothed 53-year-old self-described journeyman manages this property for Yugambeh Land Enterprises, a group of eight local indigenous clans granted the land from the Indigenous Land Corporation in 1998.
To them, says Hunter, this revegetation project is a literal turning back of time, with native trees rooting once more in the soil cleared for cattle grazing. But to others, this is climate change ground zero, where the work starts to reset the imbalance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. ...
Read the entire article at Graham's blog - the green blog