November 10, 2022 - ...the changes at this week’s COP27 in Egypt. “Protecting and restoring native forests is essential climate change action if Australia is to meet its net-zero targets,” Dr Conway said. “Only old growth forests can remove carbon from the atmosphere at the scale and time required. “Native forest logging is terrible for the climate. Young forests take decades or centuries to absorb carbon but we don’t have time to wait that long, we need to reduce our emissions now.” For further comment please contact Dr Jennifer Conway on 0417 586 567 Media Release: Victorian Government urged to end native forest logging...
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Natural ecosystems support our health by filtering our air, providing fresh water and food, regulating our climate, directly improving human health and protecting against the spread of disease and pests.
They also foster our mental wellbeing and serve as places of recreation and sources of nature-based jobs in tourism and other vocations. Furthermore, with over one third of all medicines known to humans being derived from nature, protected ecosystems are a form of innovative capital for future medical advances. Ecosystems are the foundations of biodiversity, the infinite variation in life forms. Human resilience in the face of sudden and catastrophic shifts to the planetโs life-support systems is strengthened by this variety of life on earth.
Doctors for the Environment Australia is focused on the complex interaction between human health and our natural environment and is therefore interested in environmental degradation, particularly the loss of biodiversity and the impact this is having, and will continue to have, on human health and social stability. A global environment that supports biodiversity is better able to support human health. This is a topic of utmost urgency, and of great political and cultural complexity.ย It is also deeply fascinating as we continue to better understand the ways in which time spent in nature can help both prevent and cure commonย lifestyle related diseases.
Biodiversity Resources
POLICY PAPER AND POSITION STATEMENT ON BIODIVERSITY
The health case for ending native forest logging and establishing the Great Forest National Park in Victoria
DEAโs Biodiversity Policy (Nov 2019)
DEAโs Biodiversity Position Statement (Nov 2019)
FACTSHEETS ON BIODIVERSITY
Zoonoses are infectious diseases that can be passed from an animal to a human. There has been increase in zoonotic diseases over the past 30 years, posing major risks from diseases like COVID-19 (August 2020)
Forests and native vegetation like grasslands, wetlands and woodlands support our health and the environment in which we live. (Jan 2019)
Land clearing has wide ranging and harmful implications for human health (Jan 2019)
PRESENTATIONS ON BIODIVERSITY
PowerPoint presentation that details why environmental sustainability is core business for health professionals and an essential part of health education. (July 2018)
DEA SUBMISSIONS RELATED TO BIODIVERSITY
2019-20 Review of the EPBC Act (April 2020)
EPBC Act Review Interim Report โ DEA response (July 2020)
Australiaโs faunal extinction crisis (August 2019)
We must protect biodiversity if we are to protect ourselves
January 24, 2013 - ...reefs, one of the planet’s richest sources of biodiversity, have come under multiple assaults. Warming ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, ocean acidification driven by the increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, result in coral bleaching causing symbiotic algae, normally an essential source of oxygen and sugars for the coral, to become toxic. If we lose coral reefs we will lose protection against storm surges and waves as well as untold numbers of species that are dependent upon reef ecosystems and, with them, all the medicinal potential they may possess. ‘What is the medical value of marine biodiversity?’ estimates that...
Itโs time to Getup! and save the Tarkine
March 28, 2012 - ...potential to create 1200 jobs and generate $60 million annually by 2020. These are long term jobs which support local communities and provide for a healthy sustainable future. Doctors for the Environment Australia supports Getup!’s campaign to save the Tarkine and calls on Minister Burke to act now and protect this area from the threat of mining for its health, environmental and cultural values. Follow the link for more information on how you can contribute to Getup!’s Tarkine campaign Dr Dimity Williams is a General Practitioner working in inner Melbourne who is currently on The DEA National and Victorian Committees....
Minister Burke- donโt mine the Tarkine!
April 19, 2012 - Last month DEA’s Dr Dimity Williams- a Melbourne GP and passionate tree lover- went deep into the Tarkine with the crew from GetUp to help raise awareness on the threat to the Tarkine posed by mining see link : http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/save-our-forests/tony-burke/dont-mine-the-tarkine Since then, thanks to tens of thousands of GetUp members contacting Tony Burke, the Federal Environment Minister and asking him to personally get his boots dirty in the Tarkine before making a decision on whether or not to approve open cut mining in the middle of the rainforest there’s been a breakthrough. Minister Burke has finally responded and agreed to...
Canberra Times: Now is not the time to weaken our environmental protections
June 10, 2020 - ...of the EPBC Act to date, it is unlikely that its flaws can be addressed by amendments alone. DEA and CAHA are part of a broad alliance of environmental and health groups that have called for a new generation of environmental law, and new federal institutions to deliver it. Read the full article which was published in the Canberra Times on 10 June 2020 DEA and CAHA met the Environment Minister Sussan Ley on 9 June 2020. They discussed the inextricable link between the environment and health, and the need to place the protection of nature front and centre of new environment laws. ...
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