An Australian environment group is shifting its focus to campaigning against fossil fuel mining. Source: AAP
THE Wilderness Society will shift its focus from protecting wildlife to campaigning against fossil fuel mining, saying fossil fuels are the greatest driver of climate change.
Australia's fossil fuel reserves make it one of the countries that can do the most to prevent catastrophic changes to the world's weather, Wilderness Society national director Lyndon Schneiders said as he announced the shift in focus on Saturday.
The group, which is Australia's largest environmental organisation, has vowed to fight to keep fossil fuels in the ground and out of the atmosphere.
Mr Schneiders said burning Australia's known fossil fuel reserves will take the world halfway to the two-degree tipping point of dangerous climate change.
"Australia's Climate Council says 80 per cent of our fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground if we are to avoid dangerous climate change," he said.
"Australia will be one of the countries most effected by climate change and one of the countries that can do the most to stop catastrophic climate change. We must act."
The organisation has identified six deposits that contain "globally significant" amounts of fossil fuels.
These sites, Maules Creek and Pilliga forest in NSW, the Cooper Basin (SA and Queensland), the Canning Basin (WA), Arckaringa Basin (SA) and the Great Australian Bight, will become the focus of its multi-faceted campaign.
The Wilderness Society will launch litigation, market campaigns, community-based activism and non-violent direct action to prevent the mining of fossil fuels.
The new focus will begin with support for a community blockade against a proposed Whitehaven Maules Creek coal mine in NSW.
"This is just the beginning," Mr Schneiders said.
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