{"id":523212,"date":"2010-04-10T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http%3A%2F%2Fwwf.org.au%2Fnews%2Fminister-peter-garrett-recognised-for-conservation-achievements%2F"},"modified":"2010-04-10T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T14:00:01","slug":"minister-peter-garrett-recognised-for-conservation-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523212","title":{"rendered":"Minister Peter Garrett recognised for conservation achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWF today awarded Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwf.org.au\/publications\/leadersforalivingplanet0410.pdf\">Leaders for a Living Planet<\/a> award, in recognition of significant commitments to the expansion and enhancement of Australia&#8217;s protected areas.<\/p>\n<p>The award, presented to Minister Garrett at the opening of the <em>Healthy Parks, Healthy People Congress<\/em> at the Melbourne Convention Centre, is one of the highest honours given to individuals by the global conservation organisation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Through programs such as Reef Rescue and the National Reserve System, Minister Garrett&#8217;s commitments to protected areas represent major progress towards the establishment of a safety net for Australia\u00e2\u0080\u0099s wildlife,&quot; said Greg Bourne, WWF-Australia CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They also promise real economic benefits in terms of tourism, clean water, clean air and climate mitigation. &quot;In addition, increased funding for Indigenous Protected Areas and ranger programs promise significant improvements in health and wellbeing for Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This award recognises that conservation is more than a portfolio for Minister Garrett. Instead, it has been a lifetime commitment.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bourne presented the award certificate and letter to Minister Garrett on behalf of WWF-International Director General Jim Leape.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Garrett is the first Australian recipient of a <em>Leaders for a Living Planet<\/em> award, which has been awarded to over 50 government and non-government conservation leader since 2002, recognising a wide variety of initiatives. Recent recipients include Nepal&#8217;s <em>Climate-For-Life <\/em>Ambassadors Apa and Dawa Sherpa.<\/p>\n<p><em>Specific<\/em> commitments made by Minister Garrett recognised by the Award include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$200 million to reduce pollution affecting the Great Barrier Reef.<\/li>\n<li>$180 million to expand the area protected within the National Reserve System.<\/li>\n<li>$50 million for Indigenous Protected Areas, $90 million for Indigenous ranger programs and $10 million to support Indigenous participation in emerging carbon markets.<\/li>\n<li>A target to expand protected areas to at least 125 million hectares (a 25 per cent increase) by 2013.<\/li>\n<li>A renewed national strategy for the National Reserve System that focuses on protecting critical habitats and the viability of species and ecological communities threatened by climate change by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Progress on national marine protected areas including a new conservation zone over the Coral Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwf.org.au\/publications\/leadersforalivingplanet0410.pdf\">Leaders for a living planet brochure here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWF today awarded Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett the prestigious Leaders for a Living Planet award, in recognition of significant commitments to the expansion and enhancement of Australia&#8217;s protected areas. The award, presented to Minister Garrett at the opening of the Healthy Parks, Healthy People Congress at the Melbourne Convention Centre, is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}