Some Articles from our HNP Volunteers
Smoke billows in great heaps above a dry, smouldering forest. Thick ash darkens skies across the country, as far east as New Zealand. Entire towns are reduced to skeletal wreckages; evacuees gather in terrified groups on beaches that were once the image of an Australian summer holiday. Injured wildlife recover in loungerooms, turned into makeshift outpatient wards…
Climate change is an existential threat. Mostly framed around human existence, we cannot forget that threat extends to much more than humans. There are few, if any, species of life on Earth that will not be affected by climate change. Many already are. Conservation, with its key function of preserving the natural environment and all that lives within it, is inextricably linked to climate change. Conservation has a central role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation and adaptation exist in tandem in the response to climate change; our most effective responses require elements of each.
To the people who act for life,
You know we are all connected to the Earth. Yet few of us act for it. And those who do, do so alone. This needs to change.
On 15th March, 150,000 students across my home country, Australia, chose to follow the example of a single Swedish girl the same age as myself and strike against our widespread inaction against climate change. After decades of denial, popular pressure for environmentally sustainable policies is mounting at a rate never before seen. This is overwhelmingly positive news… and yet it is not enough.
