Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists (in short, the Wentworth Group) is a group of Australian scientists concerned with the environment, that in November 2002 released a statement, Blueprint for a Living Continent. This calls for significant
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Australia - Scientist - The environment - 2002
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environmental reform to alleviate the mis-use of Australia's resources, significantly its water.
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The Wentworth Group proposes three main changes that the Federal and State governments can implement immediately:
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- Cease broadscale clearing of remnant native vegetation;
- Clarify "property rights" to water; and
- Purchase from current rights holders what they believe is urgently needed environmental flows of water for the Murray River and its tributaries.
- Prof Peter Cullen - Director, Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, University of Canberra; President, Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
- Prof Tim Flannery - zoologist and author (The Future Eaters)
- Assoc Prof Ronnie Harding - Institute of Environmental Studies, University of New South Wales
- Dr Steve Morton - Chief of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
- Prof Hugh Possingham - Director, Ecology Centre, University of Queensland
- Dr Denis Saunders - Conservation biologist and former CSIRO chief research scientist
- Prof Bruce Thom - Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney - former Chair Australian State of the Environment Committee
- Dr John Williams - former Chief of CSIRO Land and Water
- Prof Mike Young - Director Policy and Economic Research Unit, CSIRO Land and Water
- Peter Cosier - Policy Officer with the World Wide Fund for Nature.
- Leith Boully - Board Member, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and former Chair of the Community Advisory Committee of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission
The blueprint was widely publicised in the media and was considered by the highest levels of government.
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The Wentworth Group consists of:
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The name of the group comes from the venue of their principal meetings prior to release of the blueprint.
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